DMA Format

DMA Format

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Format type	Tileset
Hardware	CGA, EGA, VGA
Max tile count	Unlimited
Palette	External
Tile names?	No
Minimum tile size (pixels)	N/A
Maximum tile size (pixels)	N/A
Plane count	0
Plane arrangement	N/A
Transparent pixels?	No
Hitmap pixels?	No
Metadata?	Name
Supports sub-tilesets?	No
Compressed tiles?	No
Hidden data?	No
Games	Jill of the Jungle Xargon

The DMA Format stores information about the properties of tiles used in game maps. In Jill of the Jungle the file is called jill.dma and in Xargon it is called tiles.xr[123]. A DMA file is not used by Kiloblaster as its tiles are used for EGA backgrounds only, and do not require any properties.

File format

DMA files contain no header - just a list of entries repeated until the end of the file.

Tile entry

Each tile entry is arranged in the following structure:

Offset	Type	Description
0	INT16LE code	Map code
2	UINT8 image	Index into the Shape collection (tileset) where the graphic is located
3	UINT8 tileset	Shape collection number
4	INT16LE flags	Tile properties
6	UINT8 lenName	Length in bytes of the name
7	char[lenName] name	Name of this element.

The background layer in the map file contains a list of codes, which correspond to the code value above. This is used to look up which image to draw for each tile in the map layer.

Tile properties

These probably correspond to tile mapping table values from the map format but this hasn't been verified.