Subj : Re: Talsiman/Postie
To   : vorlon
From : apam
Date : Sat Jun 18 2022 02:30 pm

 vo> Looking through the Magicka source (I've moved all the data files to the
 vo> data directory), I see that Magicka does do a byte-swap command. Is that
 vo> the only thing that needs to happen or is it more in-depth?

Packets / squish message bases are in little endian format, so they work as is on little endian computers. So basically, for big endian, every time you read a multibyte number from a packet or message base you need to swap the bytes around to suit the cpu. So having a byte swap command is important, but you also need to find all the places that read / write data and have a check for cpu type and swap bytes.

It's not hard to do, just time consuming, ideally I would have thought about it when writing the tosser / bbs and added it then.

I can look at adding it in, but I don't have a big endian computer to test it on, so would likely need some help to determine if i've found all the places that need byte swapping.

Andrew

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