Gods Configuration Format
Gods stores its hardware and control settings in GODS.INI, a plain text file written by INSTALL.EXE. It is not compressed. The launcher GODS.EXE and the game both read it, to choose the intro, the graphics driver and the sound driver.
File format
The file is nine lines of text, each ending in CR LF. There are no keys or section names: the meaning of each line comes from its position.
| Line | Example | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sound Blaster | Sound device |
| 2 | Colour VGA | Graphics mode |
| 3 | Keyboard | Control method, Keyboard or Joystick |
| 4 | Version 1.0 | Always this text |
| 5 | 072 | Key for up, as a three-digit decimal keyboard scan code |
| 6 | 080 | Key for down |
| 7 | 075 | Key for left |
| 8 | 077 | Key for right |
| 9 | 057 | Key for fire |
The example values are the defaults: the cursor keys (scan codes 72, 80, 75 and 77) and the space bar (57).
Sound devices
| Text | Driver | Loaded by the intro |
|---|---|---|
| Beeper | BPR.EXE | PBEEPER.BIN (sound engine) |
| Adlib | ADL.EXE | PPLAYER.BIN + PMUSIC.MUS |
| Roland | ROL.EXE | PPLAYER.BIN + PTITLE.RL |
| Sound Blaster | ADL.EXE | PPLAYER.BIN + PGODMUS2.MUS + PDEMOSB4.SB |
| Tandy | TDY.EXE | PTANDY.BIN (sound engine) |
The installer also displays the choices as "PC Internal Speaker" and "Roland LAPC-1", but writes the short names above to the file.
Graphics modes
The installer offers four choices: EGA, Colour VGA, Mono VGA and Tandy 16 colour. These select the graphics driver (EGA.EXE, VGA.EXE or TGA.EXE) and the matching intro (INTROE.EXE, INTROV.EXE or INTROT.EXE). Tandy also runs TGAME.EXE instead of GAME.EXE.
Credits
This file format was reverse engineered 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!)