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Extracting "SHARE.SHR" from Blood Shareware?

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:24 pm
by Cire
I wonder what format is the SHARE.SHR Blood Shareware 1.11 install file packed in? I've tried extracting with 7zip and UniExtract, doesn't work. I'm on 64-bit Windows, I can use DOSBox but it doesn't preserve the timestamps on the files as I would like. Any ideas?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 6:52 am
by dr_st
You can always change the timestamp manually later.

What would you use inside DOSBox to extract it?

Re: Extracting "SHARE.SHR" from Blood Shareware?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 8:44 am
by MrFlibble
Cire wrote:I wonder what format is the SHARE.SHR Blood Shareware 1.11 install file packed in? I've tried extracting with 7zip and UniExtract, doesn't work. I'm on 64-bit Windows, I can use DOSBox but it doesn't preserve the timestamps on the files as I would like. Any ideas?
This is some kind of proprietary format, perhaps originating with Apogee/3D Realms. It was also used for the shareware versions of Alien Rampage.

You should use DOSBox SVN Daum to install the files with all date stamps intact.