general-tools    Version 5-23-08   Release 2  45F / 7.4M (c) RTCM Corvin

Tools - Various tools that have helped or aided Duker's and BUILD users. MOD creators alike.

Notice -Please check version numbers and authors, since its easy to confuse what you have and what's here.
           -Every attempt has been made to find the newest version (Last version in somecases), of these files.

Video Resolution Changers | Misc Tools | Misc Sound Tools | Visual Basic/Required Files

Filename and author Size (kb) Description

Video Resolution Changers

Grafik-mode-changer for Duke3d
Christian
7 You can change to any grafik-mode you want but keep in mind: 1723*945 is no supported screen-resolution (don't try unnormal numbers)
Duke Nukem 3D Resolution Changer v2.0
Jason Clay
38 A program that allows you to run Duke Nukem 3D Shareware v1.3d or Duke Nukem 3D Full Version v1.3d in any resolution you want to just as long as your monitor and video card can support the mode you specify.
Resolution Raiser v3.0
W0rm
78 Lets you choose a resolution for duke all the way up to 1280x1024. Duke normally on 320x200 and can only raise to 800x600. This will work for atomic and duke 1.3.

Misc Tools

.SSI File Unpacker (C source included)
Jonathon Fowler
12 This is a small program to extract the files from the .SSI package format which Sunstorm Interactive expansion packs for games like Duke Nukem 3D are distributed in.
This updated version includes the ability to extract the SSI revision 2 format as used in Duke Carribean.
dukedc_patch.zip
Supergoofy
70 Duke It Out in DC (for Atomic Edition)

This small patch will convert DUKEDCPP.SSI to DUKEDC.GRP

Unpack the zip to where you have DUKEDCPP.SSI and run patch.bat

The DUKEDCPP.SSI must have md5: F0BFA5B956C8E3DBCBA1042118C1F456
 
vacation_patch.zip
Supergoofy
35 Duke Caribbean Vacation (for Atomic Edition)

This small patch will convert VACA15.SSI to VACATION.GRP

Unpack the zip to where you have VACA15.SSI and run patch.bat

The VACA15.SSI must have md5: 22C8CD6235FC2B7ECEFEFC2442570D68
 
GameHack-BUILD 1.4M Saved game hacks for Duke3D , NAM, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Witchaven2
TClauncher
nitro4000
2 Fill in your Mods info and it makes an installer.

pause -gives you the message "Press any key to continue..."
echo your text here -makes text show up
echo. -skips a line

getting your tc running:

open the program in textpad and edit it as follows:

1. where it has /xgame.con , if you have a different game.con name , enter it after the x.
2. where it has /gnew.grp , change new to the name of your .grp file
3. you can add some extras too if you want, like text.

TextExtract V1.0.0
Simon Kewin
538 TextExtract is a small and simple programette that scans a file for text strings, extracts them and saves them into a separate file. Useful if, say, you have a corrupted word processor file, or if you just want to see what text, if any, is inside a file.
TCBuild
Ben Smit
13 Build modification for Total Conversion maps,   You can now Build maps in a directory for whatever TC you have. The modified   BUILD.EXE will now only work for this TC and nothing else - Maybe rename it to some other name like BUILDP.EXE for example.
In this way you can have a directory for each Total Conversion and not
clutter up your main Duke3d directory. For duke 1,3d/1.4/1.5
DN Recorder
Rivest
10 If you run dnrecord in your duke dir, it will record a demo evertime you launch duke, until you run dnrecord again.
DN Stat Manager
billo
12 If you play duke on a network with your friends,   you copy down the score on the end page. Then you type in that score page to the stat manager, and it does an analysis of ratios and stats.

You need a unix machine with python to be able to use it.
uucoddos
David P. Kirschbaum
4 DOS tools for coding binaries <--> ASCII. It was also used to extract the museum.map from Klaus Breuer's Editing FAQ v1.3?
DN K-Key Cheat
Robbie Branting
3 This great program will let you use the co-op option of seeing through the other players eyes with out having to be in co-op mode! And your enemies can't use the key, unless they have this program running too!
HACK v1.1
Eternity Software
126 Game Save File Editor
Options for MS-DOS and DOS boxes
spc
5 So small it nearly doesn't exist, this tiny piece of executable code does nothing more than tell you what command-line parameters have been passed to it. You use it to spy. You simply rename OPTIONS.EXE to the filename of the executable you want to spy on, and then carry on as normal. For example, to spy on the Duke Nukem 3D setup program.......
MatchDemo v1.0 for Duke3D 1.4+
Regis
6 Little prog to record and play Duke DMO's Record and play Duke Nukem DMOs with the MatchDemo for Duke3D 1.4+. This is a simple little program you can use to record, play, and auto-record DMOs.
Episoder v2.2(Includes Source Code)
Charlie Wiederhold
56 This program is really for people who want to select lots of levels for Dukematch. It combines a bunch of maps into one episode. -parses your USER.CON
Tc killer v. 1.0
Shay Golan
73 What it does is , it takes all of the *.art *.con duke3d.grp and *.dmo files and puts them inside an arj file that will not be affected from the tc changes. And when the user is done with the tc it extracts the files back.
1MBFort
(VERSION 1.0)

John McSorley
39 ----Using with Duke3d---This program must be included in your startup config. This util will allow Duke3d to have more Conventinal memory to use on some systems.
Duke Benchmark II 12 Here's two performance benchmarks of Duke Nukem 3D for comparison(txt files)
More saved Games for Duke Nuke'em 3D
Josh Reynolds
2 It Renames the save games so the games thinks there are no save games. So you have room to store more; even when your list appears full. When you run it (Batch File) again it will backup the new save games and restores the original save games.
Duke Nukem 3D as a Fantasy Role Playing aid
Jeff Howell
21 Fantasy role playing games (FRPG - such as Dungeons and Dragons, by TSR inc) often involve complex maps. These must be constructed by the game master and communicated to the players as the game unfolds. I believe that both activities can be helped by using a polygon-based perspective graphics engine as found in several computer games. Duke Nukem by 3D Realms is an example of such a game. This comes with a comprehensive map editor.
 Example of combining Duke 3D with an FRPG included. Map and Adventure.
This idea will also work with any time period RPG with the correct map.
Show 30 This util will display .pcx image files and with the press of any key, it will fade the image to black. TC teams can use this to display there Team logo during install.
Gif2exe 26 Converts .GIF files to .EXE files so you can display logos and for TCs.
FAKE MULTIPLAYER PICKER THINGY v1.0
Joe Barta
6 This is essentially a menu to play fake multiplayer in the Atomic Edition.
FakeMatch for D3D 1.4+
Regis
9 Set Fake mltiplayer with a menu(3 options)
Map Author v2
Shannon Cornish
117 A Duke Nukem 3D level template writer.(win95)  Helps you write the level templates that comes with Duke Nukem 3d User Levels.
MAKE3D for Duke3d
Furon
13 Automaticly Modifies duke.cfg file for Red/Blue Glasses

Misc Sound Tools

Duke Nukem Theme GuitarTab
CybeRich69
613 This is a Tabit (TBT) file containing guitar tablature for the "Duke Nukem Theme." - Grabbag by Lee Jackson
Includes: Tab player and editor
G o l d W a v e   v4.21
Chris Craig
637  A sound editor, player, recorder, and converter for Windows 95/NT. You can use it to make Web page sounds, answering machine messages, or even record your own CD (when used with CD writer/software).
Features:
  • * Supports all MPC sound cards (SB, AWE, ESS, GUS, CS, ...)
  • * Configurable storage: direct-to-disk or RAM
  • * Opens huge files in a 'flash'
  • * Multiple resizable sound windows with time axis, amplitude axis, and "Overview" box.
  • * Independent left/right channel editing and viewing
  • * Detailed zoom to magnify to a sub-sample level for extra accurate editing
  • * Vertical (amplitude) zooming
  • * Direct editing with the mouse
  • * Standard editing functions: undo, cut, copy, paste, trim, mix, delete
  • * Fast 'Copy to' command for dividing a file into sections
  • * Intelligent editing that automatically converts sampling rates, bits, and channels when copying and pasting to different file formats
  • * Tool bars for editing, zooming, opening files, and effects
  • * Over 50 bitmapped tool buttons
  • * Status bar with configurable time and range displays
  • * Standard effects: echo, volume, reverse, envelope shaping, panning, filters, resample, transpose, doppler, dynamics, noise reduction, flange, parametric EQ, time warp, and more
  • * Ability to save preset paramaters and shapes for effects
  • * Independent and resizable Device Controls window with oscilloscopes, LED meters, and controls
  • * Play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, record, volume, balance, and speed controls
  • * Realtime playback during rewind and fast forward
  • * Realtime amplitude, spectrum, spectrum bar, or spectrogram oscilloscopes
  • * Flexibility to choose playback/recording devices
  • * User configurable play control
  • * Configurable recording options: loop, countdown timer, level activated, monitor
  • * Built in support for WAV, VOC, IFF, AIF, AFC, AU, SND, MP3, MAT, DWD, SMP, VOX, SDS, as well as the ability to open RAW files as 8-bit, 12-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, mu-Law, A-Law, ISDN A-Law, IEEE floating point, ASCII text, Dialogic ADPCM
  • * Transparent Audio Compression Manager support for wave files, supports MPEG compression codec
  • * Ability to set and describe reference/cue points
  • * Expression evaluator for any type of sound generation and manipulation
  • * Complete help on all commands
  • * Shareware, with no features disabled!
    Great for Duke Snd engineering, Compression is great to, smaller dloads. Please note this is shareware..register it! and send e-mail to Chris Craig to add support for Duke3d....looping wavs would be great!
D3DPlay v1.1 - Playback and Record Utility
Ben Smit
17 Ever needed to know what all the voice files sound like. Handy when using the Build Editor to put the right sort of sound in the right place well with D3DPlay you can do just that and if you need to add some of your own sounds, D3DPlay will do that for you too.
Games Music Extraction Kit v1.00a
Robert Parratt/
Danger Of Death
238 A program for extracting the S3M, MUS and Midi format files from games. It can be used with Doom (I and ][ ), Heretic,Hexen and Raptor and Duke Nukem 3D. It also contains a converter to change MUS to Midi.
Voc2wav5
Ben Smit
3 The original Voc2wav.exe only converted "mode 1" voice files. Duke3d and Shadow Warrior use mainly "mode 9" voice files thus the conversion was not possible and left you with a 44 byte wave file ! will now convert all modes (1 to 9). Should the mode be in a 16 bit format which is often the case Voc2wav will convert it to an 8 bit mode. The original sampling rate is retained.
Converts upto 1000 .voc files in a folder with the *.* parameter.
Wav2voc2
Ben Smit
3 The original Wav2voc.exe only converted up to 64k wave files. Wav2voc2.com will now convert any length Wave file.The original sampling rate is retained.
16 BIT TO 8 BIT Voice file Converter
Ben Smit
3 This util will convert 16 bits to 8 bits voc file for you thus halving the size of the file.
WHAM (Waveform Hold and Modify) v1.33
Andrew Bulhak
136 A Windows 3.1 application for manipulating digitised sound. It can read and write Windows 3.1 WAVE files, raw eight-bit digitised sound files and files of several other formats and can perform various operations on this sound. Can handle sounds of any size, restricted only by memory.
Convert 69 Simliar use as Ben Smits'  Wav2voc2  and Voc2wav5 utils, listed above.
It won't crash or freeze like the old(original) wav2voc, voc2wav utils did
made by Creative Labs

OutFmt Output Format

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-669 Instrument for 669 Tracker Module
-AIF Audio Interchange Format File (AIFF)
-AU Sun/Next Audio File
-DMF,-DSF Delusion Digital Sound File
-FAR,-FSM Farandole Composer WaveSample
-IFF Interchange Format File (IFF)
-MOD Instrument for Protracker/Fastracker/Startrekker Module
-MTM Instrument for MultiTracker Module
-PAC,-SOU SBStudio II Sound File
-PAT Gravis Ultrasound Patch
-RAW PCM Signed Raw Sound File
-SBK EMU SoundFont Bank (AWE32 Bank)
-SDS MIDI Sample DUMP Standard File
-SDX Sample DUMP Exchange File
-SF IRCAM Sound File
-SMP Samplevision File
-SND PCM Unsigned Raw Sound File
-S3M,-S3I Digiplayer/ST3 Sample File
-ULT,-UWF UltraTracker WaveSample
-VOC Creative Lab's Sound File
-WAV Microsoft Windows RIFF WAVE
-OUT Extract individual files from the input file

Voice and Wave Converter for Sound Blaster 16
Creative Labs
54 Converting Voice Files to Waveform Files. - Converting Waveform Files to Voice Files.
Voice and Wave Converter for Sound Blaster PRO
Creative Labs
36 Converting Voice Files to Waveform Files. - Converting Waveform Files to Voice Files.

Visual Basic Files - place in your C:\windows\system folder. Required files for some Programs as noted.

vbrun300.dll 225 03.00.0538 May 12, 1993$
VB5 Runtime Files 1.3MB Visual Basic 5.0 Runtime Service Pack 3
COMDLG32.OCX 54 5.00.3714 January 14, 1997
MSVBVM50.dll 687 05.00.4319 (SP2) July 19, 1997
VB40032.DLL
Microsft
381 4.00.2422 August 22, 1995