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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).