I was reading a post at http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...p?topic=1460.0 but I couldn't understand the pseudocode
Apparently you can also use resource files or .Dat files. This is pretty interesting as you could store all sorts of lovely game recources. Anyone got any ideas?
I believe .pak are 'just' zip files. So have a search on torry.
If you want to write your own fileformat, a word of warning: storing multiple files in one archive file just is not easy.
You might want to take a look at my nvfs project: http://www.noeska.net/projects/nvfs/ it is available under the mpl license. A word of warning here also it has no compression (yet) and it needs documentation and examples.
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@noeska:
For your compression you could always give DIUcl (Link) a try. It supports in-memory (de)compression and working with streams.
I used it for my own file packer and it managed reasonably well. However, it had trouble with some files that were already compressed at a better ratio. I just put a check in to "store" those files rather than compress them.
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@ize
the license of DIUcl is gpl and that is not compatible with a mpl license i use. Thanks for the advice though.
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You can always use resources to store files inside your EXE. Or take a look at Paul's project: http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...p?topic=4275.0
GLScene fully supports a .PAK files which is plain files stream. I found a really good solution for game resource paks Single File Data Storage
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