Vampyr: The Talisman of Invocation Utilities

vampyr-utils is a repo for utilities for decoding files from Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation, the 1989 DOS game made by Victor Shao and Brian Weston. For more information on the game, visit the unofficial wiki: https://vampyr-talisman-of-invocation.fandom.com/wiki/Vampyr:_Talisman_of_Invocation_Wikia

The game can be downloaded here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_VAMPYR20_shareware

It can be played using DOSBox: http://www.dosbox.com/

Requirements

For cppsrc:

• C++17 compiler
• CMake 3.10+

For pascal:

• Free Pascal

Building

For C++, use CMake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

For Pascal, use Make:

cd pascal
make

Utility Index

All images are .BMP with 24bit color (no alpha).

C++:

• bmp2con - Convert an image to .CON
• con2bmp - Convert .CON to an image with EGA palette
• map2bmp - Generate a map image from a .MAP file
• map_layer_enconter - Take a map image and layer NPCs on top
• splitss - Split a horizontally laid out sprite sheet into component images
• stichss - Turn a bunch of images into a single sprite sheet

Pascal:

• ENCONTER - Translate the provided ENCONTER.SET into CSV
• sign - Translate the provided SIGN.DAT into CSV
• mondat - Translate the provided *MON.DAT into CSV
• VCHEAT - Modify PLAYER.SAV to max out stats

License

Uses stb_image.h and stb_image_write.h:
Public Domain
https://github.com/nothings/stb

Everything else: see LICENSE