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Re: xy modification after game has started

Mon, 07 July 2014 11:25

raptor

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I think I just figured out the byte swap problem (which now seems obvious): binary data was written on a 16bit little-endian platform (Windows 3.1). This means the byte stream should probably be read as such.

A side-effect of this is that any description of a stars block that has one-byte-or-smaller pieces may be incorrect. For instance, alignment of the FileHeaderBlock here:

http://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/FileHeaderBlock

probably has bytes 16 and 17 switched. This also clarifies instances where there is weirdly packed data, such as in places like the block header shown here:

http://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Technical_Information#Gen eral_File_Structure

I'm thinking that the file byte stream should be read in swapped to begin with - but this may change paradigms a little. It will definitely reduce deserialization code.

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		xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sun, 29 June 2014 22:48
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: skoormit on Mon, 30 June 2014 13:35
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Mon, 30 June 2014 18:33
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Tue, 01 July 2014 09:27
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: skoormit on Tue, 01 July 2014 21:41
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: XAPBob on Wed, 02 July 2014 03:10
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: skoormit on Wed, 02 July 2014 14:59
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Wed, 02 July 2014 19:51
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Wed, 02 July 2014 23:35
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Thu, 03 July 2014 15:08
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: XAPBob on Fri, 04 July 2014 06:52
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Fri, 04 July 2014 11:48
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Thu, 03 July 2014 19:03
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Fri, 04 July 2014 22:07
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 05 July 2014 04:05
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 05 July 2014 05:00
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 05 July 2014 09:39
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 05 July 2014 15:12
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 05 July 2014 19:15
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 05 July 2014 20:37
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 05 July 2014 21:10
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 05 July 2014 21:30
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sun, 06 July 2014 01:55
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sun, 06 July 2014 03:38
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sun, 06 July 2014 09:07
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sun, 06 July 2014 15:14
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sun, 06 July 2014 16:53
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sun, 06 July 2014 20:31
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sun, 06 July 2014 22:56
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Mon, 07 July 2014 11:25
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: XAPBob on Mon, 07 July 2014 12:48
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Mon, 07 July 2014 14:37
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 19 July 2014 02:18
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 19 July 2014 12:20
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 19 July 2014 15:20
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 19 July 2014 19:57
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 19 July 2014 22:44
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sun, 20 July 2014 02:42
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Mon, 21 July 2014 00:22
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Mon, 21 July 2014 12:11
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Mon, 07 July 2014 14:29
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 05 July 2014 10:38
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: raptor on Sat, 05 July 2014 12:34
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: m.a@stars on Sat, 05 July 2014 15:16
		Re: xy modification after game has started By: ricks03 on Fri, 15 November 2019 12:27

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