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Myst and Riven aren't the only games to use the [[Mohawk archive format|Mohawk format]]. In fact, many Broderbund based games use it. Here is a (partial) list of games known to use it: * Green Eggs and Ham * James Discovers Math * James Explores Math * Logical Journey of the Zoombinis (aka Zoombinis Logical Journey) * Maggie's Barnyard Adventure * The Treehouse * Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure) * Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Windows/Mac version) = Video = All the videos of the original games are QuickTime movies. The later Zoombinis release has Bink videos instead. The audio codec is raw, signed, 16-bit data in Big Endian format. The video codec, however, is not standard. It has the FourCC 'QkBk' and has description "CDToons". Neither QuickTime nor mplayer/ffmpeg can play this codec and its format is unknown. Some videos still use Cinepak (like "The Chief" videos in Carmen Sandiego). = Game Specific Information = == James Discovers/Explores Math == === Resources === ==== tANM ==== Animation? ==== tMFO ==== == Logical Journey of the Zoombinis == === Resources === ==== \0SND ==== These are [[Mohawk Sounds]]. Note that they begin with a NULL character. ==== CURS ==== Cursor? ==== SCRB ==== ==== SCRS ==== ==== NODE ==== ==== PATH ==== ==== SHPL ==== ==== SYSX ==== This appears to be a list of Adlib MIDI commands. There are only two resources in the game (which are found in MIDIMAP.DAT) and are 1 or 0xFFFF. They are identical. == Maggie's Barnyard Adventure == === Resources === ==== tCUR ==== Cursor? == Common Resources == ==== tBMP ==== Game bitmaps. However, they are not the same as [[Riven tBMP resources|Riven tBMP's]]! Here's what I figured out so far: (Big Endian Order) {| class="structure" |unsigned long||u0 |- |unsigned long||u1 |- |unsigned long||u2 |- |unsigned long||data_size |- |unsigned short||buffer_size |} Following this is ''data_size'' bytes. u0 and u1 are normally close. u2 and data_size are normally close. Following this seems to be LZSS compressed data using a buffer size of ''buffer_size'', perhaps similar to the encoding in [[Myst WDIB resources]]. This is the same in all non-Riven (and non-Myst) games. ==== tWAV ==== This is a [[Mohawk Sounds]] resource. (Found in all but ''Logical Journey of the Zoombinis'') ==== tPAL ==== This appears to be a palette. Here's what I've worked out so far. I believe this may be tied together with tBMH. (Big Endian Order) {| class="structure" |unsigned short||u0 |- |unsigned short||color_count |} Following that is ''color_count'' RGBA quads. This is found in ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'', ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)'', ''Green Eggs and Ham'', and ''The Treehouse''. ==== tCNT ==== Unknown. The data size is always 4 and follows this format: (Big Endian Order) {| class="structure" |unsigned short||resource_id |- |unsigned short||u0 |} ''resource_id'' appears to always equal the tCNT that this belongs to. This is found in ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'', ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)'', ''James Discovers Math'', ''Green Eggs and Ham'', and ''James Explores Math''. ==== tSCR ==== Unknown. This is found in ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'', ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)'', ''Green Eggs and Ham'', and ''The Treehouse''. ==== STRL ==== This is a string list. {| class="structure" |byte||string_count |} Following that is ''string_count'' NULL-terminated strings. This seems reminiscent of Riven's [[Riven_NAME_resources|NAME resources]]. This is found in ''Logical Journey of the Zoombinis'', ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'', and ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)''. ==== tBMH ==== This appears to be identical to the tBMP resources found in these games. I believe this may be tied together with tPAL. I also think this may be sprites. The characters in Carmen Sandiego use different palettes on the same sprites to make the look of the person appear different. For example, the palette could change to change hair color, skin color, and clothing. This is found in ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'', ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)'', ''Green Eggs and Ham'', and ''The Treehouse''. ==== tMID ==== This is a [[Mohawk MIDI]] resource. This is found in ''Logical Journey of the Zoombinis'', ''James Discovers Math'', ''James Explores Math'', and ''The Treehouse''. ==== REGS ==== Unknown. This is found in ''Logical Journey of the Zoombinis'', ''Green Eggs and Ham'', and ''The Treehouse''. ==== BYTS ==== This appears to be able to hold multiple things. In DATABASE.MHK, it holds database entries (one large null-terminated string), but elsewhere it appears to be something else. This is found in ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'' and ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)''. ==== INTS ==== Unknown. This is found in ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'' and ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)''. ==== BBOX ==== Some sort of boxes? It follows this format: (Big Endian Order) {| class="structure" |byte||rect_count |} And then, it has ''rect_count'' rects: {| class="structure" |unsigned short||left |- |unsigned short||top |- |unsigned short||right |- |unsigned short||bottom |} This is found in ''Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'' and ''Where in America is Carmen Sandiego? (The Great Amtrak Train Adventure)''. ==== ANI ==== Animation? (Note: Ends in a space character) This is found in ''Maggie's Barnyard Adventure'' and ''Green Eggs and Ham''. ==== BITL ==== This is found in ''Maggie's Barnyard Adventure'' and ''Green Eggs and Ham''. ==== SCRP ==== This is found in ''Maggie's Barnyard Adventure'' and ''Green Eggs and Ham''. ==== SPR# ==== Sprites? This is found in ''Maggie's Barnyard Adventure'' and ''Green Eggs and Ham''. ==== VRSN ==== Version? In Green Eggs and Ham, it contains these two bytes: <div align="center" style="color:#008; font-family:monospace; margin:1em">00 02</div> This is found in ''Maggie's Barnyard Adventure'' and ''Green Eggs and Ham''. ==== SHP# ==== This is found in ''Maggie's Barnyard Adventure'' and ''Green Eggs and Ham''.

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