First post, by Peter Swinkels
Hi,
I was wondering if any one could help me find out more about a file format used by the MS-DOS version of Cartooners (by: Electronic Arts) to store its installation files. Apparently the original installation disks contained the following files:
ART_1AC.PEA
ART_1MO.PEA
ART_1MU.PEA
ART_1SC.PEA
ART_2.PEA
CARTOON.IEA
EX_MOVS.PEA
INSTALL.EXE
PROGRAM.PEA
SCENES1.PEA
As far as I can tell the *.PEA files contain compressed files used by Cartooners. I have no idea what Cartoon.iea contains. The installation program (Install.exe) contains a few plaintext strings that may be interesting:
"Greenleaf SuperFunctions v1.00, Copyright (c) 1988 Greenleaf Software Inc.
The Greenleaf Functions Version 3.10 Copyright (c) 1984,1985,1986,1987 Greenleaf Software Inc."
Also interesting is that there are various references to programming language keywords (some of which remind me of BASIC):
SAY
FSAY
ATSAY
COLOR
COLORF
CLS
COPY
UNPACK
FCLOSE
GOSUB
RETURN
GOTO
IF
THEN
ELSE
ENDIF
EXIT
DIALOG
ATDIALOG
CURUP
CURDN
HOME
END
CR
CURLF
CURRT
ESC
PGUP
PGDN
INS
DEL
I found some information about this on the internet but it is of very little use. Also, the Greenleaf website (http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Greenleaf_ArchiveLib) appears to be dead.
I have no trouble installing Cartooners in DOSBox, I'm just hoping to learn more about the file format used to store its installation files. If anyone knows any more about this or has a utility other than the installer that can read and extract these files, please let me know. Thanks.
BTW:
I would upload these files, but I'm not sure this is allowed on these forums.
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