Alone in the Dark (1-3)/Additional Resources
From SDA Knowledge Base
- Script for uncompressing .pak files:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/alonedark.bms
- Use it with quickBMS:
- Room Viewer/Model Viewer (requires quickBMS):
https://github.com/tigrouind/AITD-roomviewer/releases/latest
- You may not use the room viewer during actual runs!
- Maps: all taken using the room viewer. Some include the camera sectors.
- AITD-tools: Memory Viewer, LifeDISA (to disassemble LIFE scripts), TrackDISA (to disassemble TRAK scripts), PAKExtract and VarsViewer (to monitor VARs and CVARs, game internal cache, actors and objects).
https://github.com/tigrouind/AITD-tools/releases/latest
- vars.txt: This file contains a verbal description of what each LIFE, VAR, CVAR, etc. is or does.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mx95yMoi77_1p4K0sntxmWQNI3whBnD7/view?usp=sharing
- Free in the Dark: engine port useful for checking stuff like what the game code looks like
https://github.com/jmimu/FITD (original version, no more maintained)
https://github.com/yaz0r/FITD (modern version)
- Free in the Dark build for Windows (work in progress):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1leoCzWUqh1kJ5KVH896123pIsyUhiahv/view?usp=sharing
- Free in the Dark build with camera hack to show a wide screen view of the game while it's running (useful for render bug exploration):
- A custom build of the debug version of DOSBox. It might work better than the official build for setting up breakpoints.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jJuveYRDlQU53VD9UF6f40iI1m6ojEl0/view?usp=sharing
- NHG's YouTube with runs and demos:
