Blizzard Entertainment:Storm: Difference between revisions

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"Blizzard games released since 1996 to 2004 (Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Warcraft II and Warcraft III) shipped with Storm.dll, a dynamic library that contained functions that were able to read data from the archives. This DLL also contained memory management functions, network support, compression functions and other. There was also a Mac version of this library, named Storm.bin. Storm.dll only contained functions for reading MPQs. The MPQ writing functions (saving games, creating maps etc.) were compiled inside the main game executable."

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Since Warcraft III version 1.29.2.9231, storm.dll is no longer used by any Blizzard game. The code is entirely included in the main executable (i.e. Warcraft III.exe).

— [http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/stormdll.html zezula.net, ''Storm.dll'']

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== Features ==

* ~~MPQ~~ compression: one of Storm's main ~~features~~ was to provide ~~asset compression/obfuscation using~~ the [[Blizzard Entertainment:MPQ|MPQ]] format.

* Data structures: Storm implements C++ data structures for arrays, linked lists and hash tables.

* Threads: Facilitates the creation of threads across different platforms.

* Asset compression/obfuscations: one of Storm's main uses was to provide utilities for the [[Blizzard Entertainment:MPQ|MPQ]] format.

== StormLib ==

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'''Note: StormLib is a library for creating and reading from MPQ archives. Unlike not implement the whole set of features present in Storm.'''

~~To create~~ a free and open source implementation of the MPQ ~~capabilities of~~ Storm~~, StormLib was created~~.

StormLib was created as a free and open source implementation of the MPQ features from Storm.dll.

StormLib is very stable and has a good track record of being able to work with a wide range of MPQ archives, both old and new.

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 "Blizzard games released since 1996 to 2004 (Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Warcraft II and Warcraft III) shipped with Storm.dll, a dynamic library that contained functions that were able to read data from the archives. This DLL also contained memory management functions, network support, compression functions and other. There was also a Mac version of this library, named Storm.bin. Storm.dll only contained functions for reading MPQs. The MPQ writing functions (saving games, creating maps etc.) were compiled inside the main game executable."
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+Since Warcraft III version 1.29.2.9231, storm.dll is no longer used by any Blizzard game. The code is entirely included in the main executable (i.e. Warcraft III.exe).
 — [http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/stormdll.html zezula.net, ''Storm.dll'']
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 == Features ==
-* MPQ compression: one of Storm's main features was to provide asset compression/obfuscation using the [[Blizzard Entertainment:MPQ|MPQ]] format.
+* Data structures: Storm implements C++ data structures for arrays, linked lists and hash tables.
+* Threads: Facilitates the creation of threads across different platforms.
+* Asset compression/obfuscations: one of Storm's main uses was to provide utilities for the [[Blizzard Entertainment:MPQ|MPQ]] format.
 == StormLib ==
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 '''Note: StormLib is a library for creating and reading from MPQ archives. Unlike not implement the whole set of features present in Storm.'''
-To create a free and open source implementation of the MPQ capabilities of Storm, StormLib was created.
+StormLib was created as a free and open source implementation of the MPQ features from Storm.dll.
 StormLib is very stable and has a good track record of being able to work with a wide range of MPQ archives, both old and new.