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gulliver · 21 September 2014, 01:17

INTERESTING FACTS:

*boot:Casablanca/Casablanca2 is the actual video editor which seems to share the same codebase as the legendary MovieShop from VlabMotion and DraCo fame. Furthermore, its audio and video operators seem at first sight compatible with MovieShop (version 5.x which are DraCo only releases).

*The folder boot:Casablanca/images/ contains the gadgets of the video editor interface and of the mouse pointer in IFF format.

*Fonts were sometimes sold as much as $79 per individual floppy, and are nothing but converted truetype fonts using TypeSmith to Compugraphic/bullet format.

*The version of the System software can be obtained by searching thru the boot:Casablanca/Casablanca2 file. It is shown next to the "$MSV:" string. The version number is in the format a.bb.c.nn where nn is replaced by an X when displayed. Date is taken from the "$VER: Casablanca" string, it is in parenthesis. Note: all "" characters are just delimiters, not part of the strings.

*The video and audio partitions (STB_VIDEO and STB_AUDIO) may be viewable with Alex Kazik´s Scene-Handler program, and can be backed up with ABackup/Diavolo Pro (this statement needs proper confirmation).

*It seems the video editor Casablanca2 has some calling parameters which might be useful for further hacking. So far I met with these: protected, nodebug, keepscreen, nomonitor, ibc98, playloop, casapro, enforcer, printinfo, philips, endtest, and serdebug. Any comments on how they actually perform is apreciated (of course, many of them, we can easily guess).

21 September 2014, 01:17	#14
gulliver BoingBagged Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The South of nowhere Age: 46 Posts: 2,358	INTERESTING FACTS: boot:Casablanca/Casablanca2 is the actual video editor which seems to share the same codebase as the legendary MovieShop from VlabMotion and DraCo fame. Furthermore, its audio and video operators seem at first sight compatible with MovieShop (version 5.x which are DraCo only releases). The folder boot:Casablanca/images/ contains the gadgets of the video editor interface and of the mouse pointer in IFF format. Fonts were sometimes sold as much as $79 per individual floppy, and are nothing but converted truetype fonts using TypeSmith to Compugraphic/bullet format. The version of the System software can be obtained by searching thru the boot:Casablanca/Casablanca2 file. It is shown next to the "$MSV:" string. The version number is in the format a.bb.c.nn where nn is replaced by an X when displayed. Date is taken from the "$VER: Casablanca" string, it is in parenthesis. Note: all "" characters are just delimiters, not part of the strings. The video and audio partitions (STB_VIDEO and STB_AUDIO) may be viewable with Alex Kazik´s Scene-Handler program, and can be backed up with ABackup/Diavolo Pro (this statement needs proper confirmation). It seems the video editor Casablanca2 has some calling parameters which might be useful for further hacking. So far I met with these: protected, nodebug, keepscreen, nomonitor, ibc98, playloop, casapro, enforcer, printinfo, philips, endtest, and serdebug. Any comments on how they actually perform is apreciated (of course, many of them, we can easily guess). Last edited by gulliver; 17 February 2018 at 14:34.