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Here accumulates a repository of general links about, regarding, and associated with Game-Maker.

RSD GameMaker (eoasm) - RSD CEO and Lead Programmer Andy Stone reminisces about Game-Maker
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 conducts a forensic 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.

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.

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

DOSBox -- for playing Game-Maker and its games on modern Windows machines.
- D-Fend Reloaded -- Good Windows frontend for DOSBox.
- DBGL: DOSBox Game Launcher -- D-Fend inspired frontend for various platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux).
- 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

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 * [http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EJRTairne/20130504/176610/The_Making_and_Unmaking_of_a_GameMaker_Maker.php The Making and Unmaking of a Game-Maker Maker] (Gamasutra)
 ** [http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EJRTairne/20130512/192139/Bonus_Time_with_Andy_Stone.php Bonus Time with Andy Stone] (Gamasutra)
+** [http://gamasutra.com/blogs/EJRTairne/20140202/192182/Infoboxes.php The Game-Maker Story: Infoboxes] (Gamasutra)
 * [http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=36382&type=software Personal Computer Museum]: A very brief overview
 * [http://creatools.gameclassification.com/EN/creatools/32-RSD-Game-Maker/index.html Game Creation Tools Classification]