> I was wondering how hard would it be to transform Game Spy into using Red Alert (1) ?
> I know Red Alert is not full of people, we get at most 60 people on weekeneds, but now that Kali is back, we started to see some old members turning up occassionaly. Anyhow, the game still rocks...but no more cool goodies are made for RA anymore ;(
> I made a messages logging program, so stuff like game start, map information, game result and lobby/game talking are logged into html. Then I thought of Game Spy....
> Could you reveal how it works before I start doing a similar version for RA? Maybe you want to code one yourself? Maybe you could help me code wise, give me some hints.
> My first guess was that Game Spy saves each cell's code at a certain period, then the codes are decoded with the viewer using the graphics in the mix files?
XGS doesn't use any graphics, it shows a radar-like view of the entire map.
It indeeds saves all locations a number of times per second.
You'd need to find the offsets in which RA stores all this info and then XGS can be updated to support RA.
