Mike O'Brien

[Lambchops]

Just noticed that in addition to designing the MOPAQ (mpq) format and tools, Mike is also the sole original author of the storm library (storm.dll). How did I never notice that before? The guy's a freakin legend. 

[Lambchops]

...also
ever wonder why the enter/leave notification hotkey is ALT-V ?

Here's the original channel dialog box prototype, it's still embedded in the files (in 6 languages!).



My guess it was the hotkey for the "verbose" button there.

mmm... software archaeology ... so nerdy 

[Lambchops]

Was this a sc1 cursor maybe? I don't remember it from wc2 anywhere.

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...also
ever wonder why the enter/leave notification hotkey is ALT-V ?

Here's the original channel dialog box prototype, it's still embedded in the files (in 6 languages!).



My guess it was the hotkey for the "verbose" button there.

mmm... software archaeology ... so nerdy 

They are actually over battle.net you can use cheat engine to make them buttons visible. There's is alot more sc1 icons in the mpq. I saw this stuff years ago.

[Lambchops]

mmm... software archaeology ... so nerdy 

They are actually over battle.net you can use cheat engine to make them buttons visible. There's is alot more sc1 icons in the mpq. I saw this stuff years ago.

Interesting. These are all from dll resource sections. The channel dialog there doesn't have the LADDER buton, they must have updated it from this one. I think the sc cursor was from w2local.dll or something.