If you’d rather not stick around for the story, here’s the library. It lets you do cool stuff like dumping your .FF2 databases to SQL scripts, ready to load into something that’s more usable.

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I was hacking on Age of Empires (the first/decent one) again this week, and have decided to open up my DRS and SLP parsers for whoever wants to use them. So here’s libaof, a lightweight C API for efficient DRS and SLP access. It uses MapViewOfFile on win32, and can be easily adapted to use [...]

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A lot of developers have trouble making their Windows UIs not flicker. A lot of developers have also offered advice in various forms on how to fix the problem, which do (to an extent) tend to work, but usually miss the root of the problem. There is, however, a single rule, which if followed, produces [...]

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