Abuse datasets

Information about the available Abuse datasets.

Data file formats

Common files:

• .spe: SPEC files for data, mostly sprites and palettes, but also levels
• .wav: sound FX files
• .hmi: music files
• .lsp: Lisp files

Other files in data packages:

• .cpf: SPEC files containing cache profile information
• satan.bak: appears to be a backup .spe file from Satan Paint
• demo1.dat: appears to be a demo control sequence
• micron.vcd: appears to be an empty SPEC file with copyright information
• example.lvl: SPEC file?
• normal.txt: probably unused

Extract information from SPE files:

find data/art -name '*.spe' | sort | while read i ; do
   basename $i; abuse-tool $i list | cut -b6- | tail -n +2 | sort -k4; echo
done

Frabs

Changes in art files:

• title.spe: title_screen disappears and is replaced with title_screen1 ... title_screen6, which were renamed to frabs_screen1 ... frabs_screen6 in SVN.

Mac Abuse

New files in art:

• keys.spe
• loading.spe
• mon_cfg.spe
• status.spe
• wait.spe

Changes in art files:

• backgrnd.spe: color_filter and palette modified
• dev.spe: c_normal goes from 9×10 pixels to 11×16
• endgame.spe:
  • tbc: 320×200 → 640×400
  • end.pcx: 320×200 → 640×480
  • credit: 320×240 → 640×480
• fonts.spe:
  • screen11 renamed to screen11+, modified
  • screen11 becomes a 224×104 image (was 224×88)
• frame.spe:
  • vcontrol: 41×101 → 120×163
  • d_ua, d_da, d_d, d_u: 9×7 → 33×33
  • u_ua, u_da, u_d, u_u`: 9×7 → 32×34
  • volume_slide: 29×7 → 84×14
  • net_screen: 320×200 → 640×480
  • end_level_screen: 160×198 → 640×480
  • end_level_screen+: new file of size 640×480
  • palette: modified
• help.spe: sell6 goes from 320×200 to 640×480
• icons.spe:
  • nums001.pcx ... nums0015.pcx: 30×25 → 50×42
  • snums001.pcx ... snums0015.pcx: backups from above, unchanged
  • newi0001.pcx ... newi0036.pcx: 32×25 → 50×39
  • color_filter: removed
• smoke.spe:
  • smoke0001.pcx ... smoke0005.pcx: 19×101 → 38×202
  • gray_pict: 320×200 → 640×480
• title.spe:
  • cdc_logo: 320×82 → 420×280
  • title_screen: 320×200 → 378×460
  • palette: modified