Development content accidentally shipped on a certain early DOS CD-ROM game from 1993

Toby D 2f66edf8cb Finally fixed horrendous abuse of single quote		3 years ago
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UTIL	8ec7046d7a Initial commit	7 years ago
README.md	2f66edf8cb Finally fixed horrendous abuse of single quote	3 years ago

An Unexpected Surprise

In 1993, the game Rebel Assault (v1.2) from LucasArts was released for MS-DOS on CD. It contained a handful of development content that wasn't intended to be shipped, including Deluxe Paint II Enhanced.

I'll be writing up more on this, but for now, here is the archive. It is kept here for historical preservation.

The \ALIASES Directory

Filename	My Best Guess
`ALIASES/CDON.BAT`	Empty
`ALIASES/DP_PREFS`	Preferences file for Deluxe Paint
`ALIASES/ENV.BAT`	Shows which environments are available (see also WATCOM.BAT, MSC7.BAT, and SCUMMENV.BAT; [missing INTEL.BAT, apparently])
`ALIASES/FOO`	Empty
`ALIASES/GENERIC.BAT`	Seems to be a template to base other environments off of
`ALIASES/MSC6.BAT`	Environment setup for Microsoft C 6.0
`ALIASES/MSC7.BAT`	Environment setup for Microsoft C/C++ V7.0
`ALIASES/SCUMMENV.BAT`	Environment setup for SCUMM Projects (includes Monkey 1 Sega (Eng/JP), Fate of Atlantis (Sega/French))
`ALIASES/SDK.BAT`	Environment setup for Microsoft Windows SDK V3.1
`ALIASES/SETENV.BAT`	Calls the current config batch file, or tries to call environ.bat if it exists
`ALIASES/WATCOM.BAT`	Environment setup for Watcom C/386

These seem to be DOS aliases used with a LOAD command. (See SDK.BAT for an example.)

Filename	My Best Guess
`ALIASES/I4MGENG.NRK`	Indiana Jones 4 and the Fate of Atlantis (Sega Mega CD, English)
`ALIASES/I4MGKAN.NRK`	Indiana Jones 4 and the Fate of Atlantis (Sega Mega CD, Japanese)
`ALIASES/M1MGENG.NRK`	Monkey Island 1 (Sega Mega CD, English)
`ALIASES/M1MGKAN.NRK`	Monkey Island 1 (Sega Mega CD, Japanese)
`ALIASES/MSC6.NRK`	Microsoft C 6.0?
`ALIASES/MAIN.NRK`	Generic aliases

The \UTIL Directory

Notable Tools

Deluxe Paint II Enhanced

Barebones copies of Electronic Arts' famous pixel art application were present. Two versions, actually. Versions 2.1 and 2.3.

DK.EXE

This, from what I recall, is an in-house LucasArts image 'Swiss Army Knife' tool. Among its powers: it could reduce the number of colors in an image, using dithering, or adapt an image to fit an existing palette.

Filename	My Best Guess or Command Output
`UTIL/2B.BAT`	Copies files to the B: drive
`UTIL/CAMERA.COM`	Electronic Arts Screen Capture Utility v1.9 (1988, 1989)
`UTIL/DEVLOAD.COM`	DEVLOAD v3.00 - Device Driver Loader (1990, 1991, Helix Software Company)
`UTIL/DEVLOD.COM`	`Device driver name required. Quitting program...`
`UTIL/DIFF.EXE`	File comparison utility
`UTIL/DK.EXE`	DK v3.7 - Internal LucasArts graphics tool (see more below)
`UTIL/DOSVER.EXE`	Allows you to force a different DOS version number
`UTIL/DP.EXE`	Deluxe Paint II Enhanced (v2.3, 1985, 1990)
`UTIL/DRVOFF.EXE`	`usage: drvoff [drive]`
`UTIL/DRVSET.EXE`	`usage: drvset [drive] <NET
`UTIL/EDP.EXE`	Deluxe Paint II Enhanced (v2.1, 1985, 1989)
`UTIL/FF.EXE`	A basic GREP-like tool for searching for strings in files
`UTIL/HD.EXE`	Creates a hex dump of a file
`UTIL/HD2F.EXE`	`Not enough parameters... format is: hd2f infile outfile`
`UTIL/INTRLIST.EXE`	IntrList v1.02 by Window Book Technology - companion to UNDOCUMENTED DOS - an interactive list of DOS interrupts
`UTIL/LOCATE.EXE`	`LOCATE list files that match a search argument as follows...`
`UTIL/LZEXE.EXE`	LZEXE v0.91 (1989, Fabrice BELLARD) - compression tool
`UTIL/MAKE.EXE`	Microsoft Program Maintenance Utility v4.06 (It's bloody `make`, mate.)
`UTIL/MOVE.BAT`	Copies a file then deletes the original
`UTIL/NETON.BAT`	Loads some 10-NET drivers and connects to a user's network resource
`UTIL/NPRINT.EXE`	`Please specify a filename.`
`UTIL/PKUNZIP.EXE`	PKUNZIP v1.1 (03-15-90) - ZIP uncompress
`UTIL/PKZIP.EXE`	PKZIP v1.1 (03-15-90) - ZIP compression
`UTIL/PROMODE.COM`	`Diamond <SpeedStar PRO> is not installed.`
`UTIL/PROTOE.EXE`	ANSI C, C++ prototype extractor v2.05 (Shareware, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 SOLUCORP)
`UTIL/PSH1A.OVL`	Overlay file
`UTIL/PSH2A.OVL`	Overlay file (PolyShell Utility Command Set, v1.3, 1986, 1988, Thompson Automation, Inc.)
`UTIL/REALIAS.BAT`	Loads alias file from `c:\anarkey\aliases\main.nrk` (See `\ALIASES\MAIN.NRK`)
`UTIL/RENDIR.COM`	Probably does what it says on the tin.
`UTIL/SMODE.EXE`	`[Carrera mode selection. V1.4 (jja)] Copyright 1990, S3 Incorporated.`, `Usage: SMODE [] [VGA
`UTIL/SWEEP.COM`	`(C) Copyright Charles Petzold, 1985`
`UTIL/TOUCH.EXE`	`Touch v.3.01 Copyright (C) OPUS Software, 1987-89` (It's bloody `touch`, mate.)
`UTIL/VGA1024.EXE`	`WARNING! You do not have a Paradise VGA card installed!`
`UTIL/X.BAT`	Older version of `NETON.BAT`?
`UTIL/X32FIX.EXE`	`FlashTek X-32 Fixup Utility` - Watcom util

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