I'm glad it's getting some use!
Hello, Brad! Some use? Last weeks I used your Barn Browser and GK3 Viewer more time than playing games. My friend 'Linus' says to me that you are a 'monster!!' (as programmer).
homemade copy protection
Thanks to your documentation about
Barn files and
the dumps (*.txt) of the barns that I've obtained with
"combine.exe dump" command, yesterday I discovered that the .BIK files aren't LZO-compressed files; the first 8 bytes don't match the pattern of the LZO files.
Besides, the 'copy protection' reason sounds very logical: 2 .bik files per disc/day and camouflaged among the others .bik files.
if you mean this: http://sidney.fwheel.net/GK3RP/ then I didn't make that, and afaik it was never released.
It's just a shame! It looks very nice.
A thousand thanks, Brad, for replying, the GK3 tools, MOD examples and Sheep/Files documentation.
Other questions for you:
1.- Do you know how the
"combine.exe build" command is used to create or modify a barn file (.brn)?
2.- My friend 'Linus' wants to ask you about the barn.dll that you used in the C# project of the Barn Browser:
- Is it yours? It appears in the 'About' window of the Barn Browser.
- There are only read/extract functions inside the DLL. Examples:
brn_GetNumFilesInBarn, brn_GetFileName, brn_ExtractFileByIndex
Why there is no function to add files to a barn file?