🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <950923090...@heights.demon.co.uk>, jo...@heights.demon.co.uk 
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>Uhhh, yeah, so how is that going to help me? Is there going to be a
>patch file released, or is Activision going to replace my CD free of
>charge?

As long as the executable is stored on your HD all the data can be on your CD 
and still be patched.  

I have peered into the format of the mw2.prj it is nothing but a concatonation 
of files with directories and indexes added too it. For what its worth, the PRJ 
even has DLLs sitting in it.  Yes some of the code is in the PRJ not in 
external DLLs or the EXE.  The DORCS screen is an example of one of the DLLs 
that is sitting in the PRJ.  The point of all of this is that if any of the 
code or data in the PRJ needs to be fixed only the "files" in the PRJ that need 
to be changed would have to be stored on your harddrive not the whole game.  A 
new EXE could then load the directories and indices into memory and update some 
of the references to point to the external files.  These could even be in a 
patch PRJ.  This of course assumes that Activision does the patch correctly, 
I'm not holding my breath.

I was looking at their file format, considering the possibility of creating an 
editor to build new missions, mechs, clans, etc.  Later, after reading their 
License Agreement and Copyright, I decided that I would only wind-up in a 
lawsuit or something.  Not worth the time or development effort.  This sucks, I 
would really like to add other mechs and the ability to create missions.  But 
due to the legal ramifications and small size of the installed base at this 
time, I don't think it would be worth the effort.  I think I'll have wait and 
write a Quake editor. :^(