It's not *that* hard. The one thing in the file that you're supposed to look at (which isn't directly stated in the linkguide) is that the data section size covers the entire data section, which can contain multiple files. Most people won't look past the first file since they assume that this size is equal to the header for the packed file plus its data. When you've gone past the first file in the group, your count doesn't match up with the aforementioned size. When this happens, there's more to be read. I ought to look forward for further contents, which are the other files in the group.

Most of the .8xx files are formatted this way, but the vast majority of them just have one entry. Which is to say, if you have something that'll read grouped files, it'll also read any other file, be it a .8xv, .8xp, or whatever in a very consistent way. In fact, it may not be necessary to know the extension if one just read the contents of the file, since filetypes and all other relevant data is kept within.

And in keeping with what you said, that revelation clicked for me once it started happening to Athena as well. I feel like I understand the file format a bit more now.

Oh, and I really should get back to work on Athena. Been playing Stepmania since I last posted or something like that and ... yeah. Too many breaks

It goes well. A little more work putting in extra features and ironing things out, and it should be golden.
At the moment, you can test and install archives. For this exercise, I'm using Illusiat 13 as the example. See screenshot below.

It goes well. A little more work putting in extra features and ironing things out, and it should be golden.
At the moment, you can test and install archives. For this exercise, I'm using Illusiat 13 as the example. See screenshot below.

Looks very good

I ask myself the same questions as calcdude84se, though...

Wow really nice! hold on!

Wow this is looking great The compression you are getting is pretty spectacular, awesome job!

looking great Iambian can't wait to use this!

The Z80 Athena seems to be mostly done now. The only thing that doesn't really work is the "Repair" command, but then again, you can always uninstall and re-install to achieve the same effect.

The PC Athena still needs to get some group support, but once that's done, I'll be releasing Athena for testing. It shouldn't be much longer now.

That reminds me of Window's uninstalling/reparing programs program. What about program compatibility? Any program(s) that don't work? Or all of them do?