DarkForest Sound Patch

Hello,

As those who knew DarkForest from the beginning have probably noticed, that the sounds don't work anymore !
Those who didn't know it from 3.0 days probably didn't even know it had sounds (and they are great !) :-)

The reason seems to be, that NeXT changed (or broke ?) the sound ATC compression scheme from 3.0 to all later 3.x releases. DarkForest sounds are compressed on 3.0, so unfortunately they don't work on anything else.

So I reinstalled 3.0 on an optical, and decompressed them and recompressed them on 3.2. It even made them smaller :)

The new sounds work on 3.2 and 3.3 Moto, I don't know about 3.1 and Intel. Perhaps somebody can try it and tell me, thanks.

Voila, here it is. Copy this script INSIDE your DarkForest.app wrapper, cd there and execute it.
Don't forget to make a copy of the application first, in case something goes wrong (It's on the 3.3 CD if you forgot anyway)
The script will replace the three soundfiles, and remove itself afterwards.
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changedarkforestsounds.sh

This worked for me, all the usual disclaimers apply ! All three sounds are played when they should be. I sometimes still get the ATC compression failed console message, but the sounds are played anyway.

If this breaks anything for you, or doesn't work at all, please let me know

Yoda
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