Notices by Peter Hosey (boredzo@mastodon.social)

@foone Yes. ResEdit has a built-in resource editor that can display 'NFNT's.

(It does warn you not to edit them. There are some metrics that they never perfected saving correctly. ResEdit was basically abandonware for a decade, during which time TrueType took over.)

@foone Yeah, Macs were big-endian through the PowerPC era, so all the native resource formats like 'NFNT' were, too.

@foone I see your edit but I was already 98% finished writing my resource extractor anyway, so I just did the last 2%, which was finishing up bulk-dumping.

Here's all the 'NFNT', 'TEXT', and 'ASEQ' resources, as one file per resource, organized by originating file: https://boredzo.org/stuph/Gizmos%20&%20Gadgets!%20CD%20extracted%20resources.zip

I don't think there are any other interesting resource types, but if you find any others you're curious about, I'm happy to bulk-dump those too if the Mac version has 'em.

@foone The mentions of 'NFNT' resources prompted me to try throwing ResEdit and DeRez at it. Sadly, neither one is able to make sense of the executable or the .dat file.

Would've been really cool if the Borland/Microsoft resource map format was actually the same one Mac OS used, to the point of being intercompatible. But no.

@foone … then I remembered that this game comes on a hybrid CD.

The Mac version also has 'NFNT' resources. If those would be useful to you, lemme know and I can dump 'em.

@blitter @foone Yeah, that was my feeling from the first mention. I wouldn't expect to see 'NFNT' on anything other than a Mac font resource.

Also, I did confirm that the Mac version's 'NFNT' resources are viewable in ResEdit, as shown here.

There are also 'ASEQ' and 'TEXT' resources. 'ASEQ' is a custom format (unlike 'NFNT', which is a standard Mac font format), so I can't view those, but I can dump them. 'TEXT' is exactly what it says on the tin (both normally and in this app).