Links

Here I mean to form a repository of general links about, regarding, and associated with Game-Maker.

Information

• RSD GameMaker (eoasm) - RSD CEO and Lead Programmer Andy Stone reminisces about Game-Maker
• Personal Computer Museum: A very brief overview
• The Game-Maker Archive (DIYGamer)
• Mike Wiering's Clean Game Library (see section 3.3)

Resources

• DOS Museum -- "Game-Maker" tag filter
• RSD Game-Maker (YouTube)

Personal sites

• Mazeguy's Invasion of the Blobs! pages -- Mike Perrucci muses about his Game-Maker days.
• Sylvain Martin's recollections
• Bilou Homebrew's Blog -- Sylvain Martin discusses his analysis of Game-Maker's file formats.
• cly5m's unfinished Game-Maker games -- Clysm, of course, being the Seiklus guy.
• The History of T3 Software -- Including some information about RSD Game-Maker development.

Tools

Image utilities

• Autodesk Animator binary
• Autodesk Animator source code
• Dave's Targa Animator -- For working with .FLI files.
• MLC Deluxe Paint Animation Decoder -- For playing .ANM files (Barracuda) in Media Player.
• .BBL to .PNG converter -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin. Optimized for Linux.
• VGMaps tool -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin, used to render level maps on this wiki. Optimized for Linux.
• .BBL metadata extractor -- Perl script by Sylvain Martin. Optimized for Linux.
• .GAM to XML converter -- POSIX C program by Sylvain Martin.
• .GAM to XML converter -- Perl Script by Sylvain Martin. Optimized for Linux.

Music utilities

• AdLib Visual Composer - For composing .ROL files and building sound banks.
• Open MPT - Modplug tracker (for converting tracker files to MIDI).
• Various other converters - MIDI to .ROL, and so on. Expect to do lots of cleanup.
• ROL2CMF - For converting .ROL files and sound banks into .CMF files.
• CMFStuff - Utilities For Working With CMF Music Files
• AdPlug -- WinAmp plugin for .CMF files

Playback utilities

• DOSBox -- for playing Game-Maker and its games on modern Windows machines.
• D-Fend Reloaded -- Good Windows frontend for DOSBox.
• Boxer Decent DOSBox frontend for Mac OS X.
• Joy2Key -- for mapping joysticks to keystrokes.
• Keyboard Remapper -- Flexible key mapping software for Windows
• KeyRemap4MacBook -- Flexible key mapping software for Mac OS

Other

• Wired Xbox 360 controller -- for half-decent joypad control.