Stupid Human Tricks
In between trips to the throne, I spent some time this evening dusting off the very, very first program I publicly released for the Mac - "GOB Viewer". It was a utility for the old LucasArts game Dark Forces. It let you peek into the .gob files, as well as split and join them. it was the necessary precursor to my Dark Forces level editor, Dark Forge.
It all came about as I was browsing the web, looking at level editors for Jedi Knight 1. Turns out that JK1 featured a "gob" file format as well, and it was very similar to Dark Forces. So what the heck. I dug around my archives, found my old code, carbonized it (yeah, that'll come in handy) and added the ability to recognize JK1 and the JK1 expansion pack gob/goo files. So now it'll split those apart too. That was pretty cool, but really all it ended up doing was depressing me about the lack of JK1 on the Mac.
I guess I should set up a web page with links to downloads of my projects. Then I can clean up "GOB Viewer 2.0" and release it to an unsuspecting (and mostly apathetic at this point) public.
Imagine a map viewer for JK1 running on the Mac in OpenGL. That'd be something, wouldn't it? Well, one step at a time.