FairyTale - ASM94 PC demo

[Asle]

Hi,

 A quick note regarding the PC demo FairyTale by On the Oath of Styx for ASM94.
I just found out that some people down at modarchive.org were looking for the musics in there. (here).
 It's all Fastracker 1 files that I've just uploaded now. The ID were changed :
M.K. is in fact 8CHN
FLT4 is in fact 6CHN
 That was it

 I could have replied to the modarchive topic but lost my access which I didn't use for a loooooooooong time . Anyway, I thought I'd put a note here as the "problem" is now solved
 The positive note is that now MrWillow is identified and is our 5th composer known from Estonia

Sylvain

[Axxy]

Nice one Asle!

Just updated the thread at MA in case the OP ever checks back in the forums.

[Asle]

No problem .
If you know of some other questions like that, please, send a note. I found this one by accident only, so ...

Sylvain

[Axxy]

Hows your knowledge of PKLite compressed files?

Unfortunately, Vista doesnt like old MS-Dos utils! 

http://modarchive.org/forums/index.php?topic=2541.0

Just to see if there is in fact a Purple Motion tune in the intro!

[deus-ex]

Actually the file isn't PKLite compressed. The string in the EXE file is a fake entry to fool unpackers. I just tried several universal & special unpackers I have in my disposal within DOSBox, unfortunately none of them is able to unpack it as the programmers added several non-trivial hacks to avoid decompression. However the tune inside the intro is indeed credited to Purple Motion, but he was never a member of EMF which also can be read at the end of intro scroller where the members of EMF are listed.

[Asle]

On my side, I don't know how to get the music. You need a hardcore DOS coder
I'll ask around.

Sylvain

[Asle]

Well, in the end I could rip this one out. It's been added, now, to AMP in today's additions (STM.EMF - intro - PM).

I memdumped DosBOX and hand ripped it (No ripper found for Screamtracker 2.0 files).

Sylvain

[deus-ex]

I memdumped DosBOX and hand ripped it (No ripper found for Screamtracker 2.0 files).

How did you do that, please? This should be of interest for everyone trying to ripp modules from old DOS productions which use unique/altered compression methods that are not trivial to unpack.

[Asle]

hum , well, nothing fancy. You just must grab a "debug" version of Dosbox. Browse their forum, as it's spread unofficially.
Once you have that, use the debug function "memdumpbin" like :
memdumpbin 0000:0000 100000
and you'll get a 1Mb raw data file of the memory starting at this address 0000:0000, stored in the Dosbox directory.
Adjust for your needs.

Not sure I was clear on this one, but ... tell me

Sylvain