Re: [Adplug-general] LDS Format

[Simon P. <dn...@gm...>]

> Have we ever made any progress on learning more about the Loudness
> format?  That's one that I'd still be a huge fan of getting added.  
> Maybe we could contact 3drealms (did the use it in that one ... space
> ship game..) or someone who used it in one of their games to get more
> information.

You're talking about Tyrian by Epic Megagames.

As for me, i'm still stuck with your source. I partly ported it to
AdPlug's interface (that's the lds.[c,h] files in the source tree), but
it's not finished yet.

Here in germany, there's a pc gaming magazine called "PC Games" that
once used loudness for the background music in a menu system on their
add-on CDs. I wrote to them a few months ago asking about where they got
it from, but no reply since.

I tried to track down the authors of that Tyrian game, but no luck
either.

> The fellow who made the "rdosplay" program was also able to support
> it.   But I've never had luck contacting him either.  I also think he
> may have just swiped assembly code from one program and dropped it
> into his, but that's just a guess.

That's also what i'm thinking of. I tried to contact him several times,
using the email address from the RdosPlay website, which is still up,
but dating '97, but without luck. Just a few weeks ago, someone sent me
a new email address of the rdosplay author and an ICQ UIN, saying he was
just talking to him about his sources and that he lost them. I tried
again, using the new email address and through ICQ, but still got no
reply. But the ICQ number appears to be right, at least from what i've
learned from the User Info page. Maybe i should just try again...

> Anyone else know any other information about this format?  Game makers
> who used it, etc?  Or anyone know reverse engineer types, or
> dissasemblers who feel like wasting time deciphering a adlib sound
> file format?

Sorry. That's all i know about it.

Simon