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Get old sound effects back into v1.4?


BubbleLabby

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Hi,

 

How do I get the sound effects of v1.0 and put them into the v1.4? I am not sure I have the old disks but I would like to know how to do it. Thanks.

 

I read the old posts which argued that the old sound effects (ie. laser burst) were much more better than v1.4.

 

BL.

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the sounds are stored in a diferent samplerate in 1.0 than 1.4 and are stored in the sample.cat file in Raw format with a index and offset info befor each sample.

 

I have been wanting to make a program to extract and convert thease but have other moding projects on my plate right now...

 

-Blade FireLight

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Hi BladeFireLight,

 

I have some programming skills. If I want to make an editor such as what you described, what kind of programming language should I use? Also, what company's package should I use? ie. Borland's Assembly program, MS's visual c++, etc. Generally, what is the first step to take? Thanks.

 

BL.

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I sugesst C++

 

but the util would have to be TRUE dos compatible for thoes of us that run xcom on a dos 6 boot partistion.

 

it also would have to be fully commandline so that a batch script could be used to create a patch for changing the sounds.. and for other to replace sounds with what ever they want..

 

It has to take both RAW and WAV input and, replace and extract from the various CAT file formats from ufo 1.0 1.4 and TFTD

 

if your up to that I have the CAT file formats (you will have to find WAV and RAW on your own)

 

-Blade FireLight

 

Also the Music files are in Sound card spacific files in the corisponding CAT. but I think they are a MIDI format. (not tested it)

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You could pick up DJGPP, a dos port of the popular GCC compiler for C/C++.

 

https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

 

It's free, so you cannot complain about price. More importantly, it can create programs that can be run in Dos. You'll want to pick up a more recent version of it for the resulting programs to work in XP as well -- but you can always use a win32 compiler, like Visual C++ or MinG to make a windows port of the same tool.

 

- NKF

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  • 5 months later...

bladefirelight,

 

did you recieve my email regarding the requests for the cat formats ?

 

if not, would you mind posting it on the forums ? or send it to me thru pm or email ?

 

and maybe give some more details on what needs to be done. i'll do the coding.

 

thanks.

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