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Given how much unused stuff this game has, I'm pretty sure there are some unused graphics stuffed away somewhere in it, but unfortunately I have no idea what kind of format it uses. I don't have much technical skill, so I just used a hex editor to check for every common '90s graphic format I could think of, but I didn't turn anything up. Anyone else have a clue what it might use? This game was made in 1995, probably on a Mac. Supper 22:02, 28 May 2011 (EDT)

Oh, it's really pretty simple. Like a lot of PC and Mac games from this era, the data formats are nominally custom, but the vast majority of games just recycle the same three or four compression formats (take your pick of raw 8-bit pixel data, RLE8, LZ77, and various bitpacking schemes) with slightly different headers and resource storage methods. On the other hand, if you "don't have much technical skill", what good does knowing that do you? Go out and learn some programming, it'll satisfy you a lot more than sitting around begging other people to do the work for you. And study for your damn Cal II exam. Supper (talk) 01:55, 13 December 2014 (EST)
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