09-13-2023, 06:40 PM
Got an update on my progress involving the Thinkin' Things games.
Sadly, the .RES files were not renamed Adobe/Macromedia Director files so changing to the .CST and .CXT extensions didn't work.
I did however temporarily change one of the .RES files to a .TXT so I could open it in Notepad and see if there were any readable text strings hidden in the garbled mess of symbols. It was here that I found what the files actually were. They turned out to be Z-Library Project Files that were compressed and exported with the .RES file extension instead of the actual Z-Library extension, .ZLIB which is probably what they were prior to compression.
None of the Z-Lib decompression sites worked and most of them looked somewhat sketchy and I didn't want to take the risk of getting my computer infected with malware.
These non standard .RES files are the most likely place where the sprites, animations and config files are stored and I need to find a way to decompress the files and figure out what program they were originally created in by looking at the data.
Sadly, the .RES files were not renamed Adobe/Macromedia Director files so changing to the .CST and .CXT extensions didn't work.
I did however temporarily change one of the .RES files to a .TXT so I could open it in Notepad and see if there were any readable text strings hidden in the garbled mess of symbols. It was here that I found what the files actually were. They turned out to be Z-Library Project Files that were compressed and exported with the .RES file extension instead of the actual Z-Library extension, .ZLIB which is probably what they were prior to compression.
None of the Z-Lib decompression sites worked and most of them looked somewhat sketchy and I didn't want to take the risk of getting my computer infected with malware.
These non standard .RES files are the most likely place where the sprites, animations and config files are stored and I need to find a way to decompress the files and figure out what program they were originally created in by looking at the data.
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