There are following news concerning the AESOP since I posted here last time: DAESOP 0.85 It can now fully convert the "Eye of Beholder 3" to be able to run in the AESOP/32. This works with the binary provided by John Miles and with the binary I compiled on my own (see below for more inform...

I found out how to fix the crashing bug when loading/saving when running the "Eye of Beholder 3" in the AESOP/32 (by changing 4 bytes in EYE.RES). Details are in the thread on VOGONS. This makes the game playable in the AESOP/32 (though I played just a short time at the beginning of the ga...

I added the font conversion to the DAESOP 0.75. This means that all texts in the "Eye of Beholder 3" are now show when it runs in AESOP/32.
You can download DAESOP 0.75 in the above mentioned thread on VOGONS.

Mirek

I implemented the bitmap conversion (EOB 3 > AESOP/32) in DAESOP 0.70 http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?p=96111#96111 . This enables to convert the "Eye of Beholder 3" to the AESOP/32 engine and the game is partially playable using the EXEs we got from John Miles (I did not build a...

There is a new version (DAESOP 0.66) available for download on VOGONS ( http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?p=95733#95733 ). Since the version 0.60 the following things were added to DAESOP: - command line parameter /ir (showing even more information about resources: original filenames if avai...

I am progressing nicely with my explorations of the AESOP engine (see on Vogons). I also try to make EOB 3 run with the AESOP/32 engine. At the moment I figured out that I need to replace the table of low level functions in EYE.RES (no problem) and to convert all bitmaps in EYE.RES (see Vogons threa...

I made another version of my DAESOP utility yesterday (DAESOP 0.60). It can be again downloaded from Vogons. Here is the information about what is new (copied from README): ... The version 0.600 adds a lot of new things into the disassembler introduced in DAESOP 0.500. It concerns mainly variables. ...

DAESOP 0.50 released :-) I made a new version of my DAESOP utility, this time adding the AESOP bytecode disassembler. This enables to disassemble the script code resources in the "Eye of Beholder 3", "Dungeon Hack" or even custom made AESOP based programs. The syntax is the same ...

I have been slowly developing a utility to analyze AESOP resource files (RES, like EYE.RES) etc. At the moment it can provide some information about the file or individual resources and also extract resources. I hope I will add AESOP disassembler in future. The utility is called DAESOP. At the momen...

Just a short information: I have made some attempts to compile the runtime (using as much original tools as possible - AIL, VFX libraries, Open Watcom...). I produced an EXE, though it does not work yet (needs more debugging). If somebody wants to try this as well, there are some usefull information...

I have received one more thing from John Miles (again, freely usable/distributable, download from the mentioned thread on VOGONS). I did not have a look on it yet Mirek From mail by John Miles: ... I managed to dig up some runtime code that is free of any IP owned by SSI or other parties, if it help...

Hi I apologize if it does not belong here (feel free to move it elsewhere), but I think this is something in which people here could be interested... "Eye of Beholder 3" and "Dungeon Hack" are based on one (though modified) engine: AESOP/16. Virtually nothing was known about it. ...

Type set aesop_diag=1 at the command prompt, then type hack to load the game. Press one of the following keys to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Enabling some codes may cause the game to crash in certain places. Effect Key Destroy all monsters A Activate text mode T No clipping I Ga...

I put a sticky thread (abusing my powers of a moderator there ) in DOS forum on VOGONS asking for information about AESOP/16...
It is just a blind fishing, but there always a chance I will catch something. We will see.

Mirek

I have added some information about Dungeon Hack - as far as I know this is the only other game using the mysterious AESOP/16 system... Nothing earth-shattering, but if Dark-Star or anyone else goes on with file analysis, he has now two more files to play with in addition to EYE.RES in EOB 3 (Dungeo...