An archive extractor tool for the DOS game Quiver (1997).
Apologies for the less than optimal code: this tool was done a while ago and was among my first ripper programs. Nonetheless, considering it serves its purpose just fine and is more or less comprehensible as it is, I don't think a rewrite is necessary.
quiver_ripper G.bin
where G.bin is the game's archive name passed as an argument(in Windows you can also use the drag-and-drop method). Once the extractor has done its thing, you should have the extracted resources in a subfolder located in the same path as the archive (if you didn't use the drag-and-drop method, you should see the subfolder's path printed as soon as the extraction is done, just in case).
- Textures
- Sprites
- Various graphics (fonts, menus, HUDs, etc)
- Palette
- Sounds
- Music
All picture-related material is extracted as .TGA pictures, which can be viewed fine with IrfanView (albeit without transparency), SLADE3, MtPaint, and possibly other image viewers I'm unaware of; if that's still a problem for you, Ken Silverman's PNGOUT is your friend :)
As for sounds and music it's a bit trickier since the game uses Diamondware STK as sound library, with its own custom formats (.DWD for sounds, .DWM for music), with DWD which appears to be derived from .VOC and .DWM which is MIDI converted into a custom format which seems to make use of OPL commands; if you're that interested, Dynamo128's packaged resources (which you can find here) include PLAYDWD.EXE and PLAYDWM.EXE tools (part of Diamondware STK library), which work under DOSBox and play those custom formats just fine.
If you want to convert .DWM files back to MIDI, I explained how to do that here.
As for .DWD(sound) files, I might look them up at some point, even though in all honesty they didn't seem they were worth the effort.
That's all, for now :)