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Warcraft II => Mods & Development => Topic started by: Lambchops on March 31, 2018, 02:01:47 AM

Title: Mike O'Brien
Post by: Lambchops on March 31, 2018, 02:01:47 AM
Just noticed that in addition to designing the MOPAQ (mpq) format and tools, Mike is also the sole original author of the storm library (storm.dll). How did I never notice that before? The guy's a freakin legend.  :-*
Title: Re: Mike O'Brien
Post by: Lambchops on March 31, 2018, 02:15:15 AM
...also
ever wonder why the enter/leave notification hotkey is ALT-V ?

Here's the original channel dialog box prototype, it's still embedded in the files (in 6 languages!).

(http://forum.war2.ru/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3990.0;attach=2179)

My guess it was the hotkey for the "verbose" button there.

mmm... software archaeology ... so nerdy  :D
Title: Re: Mike O'Brien
Post by: Lambchops on March 31, 2018, 02:31:36 AM
Was this a sc1 cursor maybe? I don't remember it from wc2 anywhere.


(http://forum.war2.ru/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3990.0;attach=2181)


Title: Re: Mike O'Brien
Post by: Delete mine too on March 31, 2018, 10:51:51 AM
Quote from: Lambchops on March 31, 2018, 02:15:15 AM
...also
ever wonder why the enter/leave notification hotkey is ALT-V ?

Here's the original channel dialog box prototype, it's still embedded in the files (in 6 languages!).

([url]http://forum.war2.ru/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3990.0;attach=2179[/url])

My guess it was the hotkey for the "verbose" button there.

mmm... software archaeology ... so nerdy  :D


They are actually over battle.net you can use cheat engine to make them buttons visible. There's is alot more sc1 icons in the mpq. I saw this stuff years ago.
Title: Re: Mike O'Brien
Post by: Lambchops on March 31, 2018, 10:31:58 PM
Quote from: tupac on March 31, 2018, 10:51:51 AM
Quote from: Lambchops on March 31, 2018, 02:15:15 AM

mmm... software archaeology ... so nerdy  :D

They are actually over battle.net you can use cheat engine to make them buttons visible. There's is alot more sc1 icons in the mpq. I saw this stuff years ago.

Interesting. These are all from dll resource sections. The channel dialog there doesn't have the LADDER buton, they must have updated it from this one. I think the sc cursor was from w2local.dll or something.