Alien Breed DSK File

INSTALL.DSK is 148 bytes. It starts with ASCII Turbo C Context File followed by byte 1A and binary data. It also contains the path C:\ALIEN\NONAME00.CPP.

This header identifies a Turbo C context file. Borland documents .DSK files as saved IDE desktop/window state in its Turbo C++ 3.0 User's Guide, section “Configuration and project files.” That general purpose agrees with the local header and source-file path. The exact version that wrote this file was not established.

File format

Offset	Length	Content
0x00	21	ASCII identification including the trailing space
0x15	1	1A marker
0x16 onward	126	Version-dependent context data, including the path

Notes

Retain this as development-tool metadata. It is not a disk image and should not be mounted as one. The filename INSTALL does not imply an installer data archive.

Use a binary inspector to extract the identifier and readable strings. The remaining record fields, serializer version, and window-state structure have not been decoded. Runtime necessity was not tested; the developer-tool association is supported by the identifying header and Borland's manual.

Files

Paths are relative to game/.

File	Stored bytes
INSTALL.DSK	148

Credits

The Alien Breed-specific format research and parsers were prepared by VorticonCmdr. If you find this information helpful in a project you're working on, please give credit where credit is due. (A link back to this wiki would be nice too!)