vt100-games/Packages

Packages

In this directory, I created .zip packages of all games for BBS distribution.

The files are created by using Info-ZIP zip on Linux.

The .zip packages

All .zip packages are placed in the directory ZIP.

The files can be extracted using the CP/M UNZIP command that can also be found here:

• UNZIP154.COM - CP/M binary
• UNZIP154.LBR - archive including source

The Github repository for this UNZIP can be found here: https://github.com/agn453/UNZIP-CPM-Z80

Package creation

I've created scripts to automatically create the .zip archives as well as the HDimage. For this to work, in every game directory, a file called .package is created which controls the package creation process.

.package is a semicolon separated file.

The first value contains a letter which indicates:

| N | name of the package (for .zip creation) | | F | file (binary or game data) | | S | source file (won't be put into HDimage) | | R | README file, will be renamed .DOC | | D | description, will be put into FILE_ID.DIZ |

The second value contains the value for the kind of line.

Optionally, a third value can exist for F, S and R lines which defines a target filename, eg. if the original filename does not conform to the 8.3 format. The file will be put in the archive under this new filename. For example:

S;gpl-3.0.txt;GPL3.TXT

will put the file gpl-3.0.txt as GPL3.TXT in the .zip file, but not in the HDimage (as source files will only be put in the .zip archives).