New File Format for Dune2000 maps

[samah]

DayOfWar, Gobalopper and I have been talking about creating a new filetype for Dune2000 maps, which will keep track of the name of a map, the author's name, email, and website, how many players it's recommended for, and so on. Shai-Hulud 2000 v0.60 which will be released hopefully later this week will have support for this filetype, and DayOfWar is going to work on coding it into MED2K, so it should be a universally accepted filetype soon.

When you use either SH2K or MED2K's map activation program, it will re-save the file in Dune2000 format so that the game can understand it, but it will use the map name, author, and recommended players stored in the file as the name of the map when adding to the in-game list.

If you have any comments, queries, or suggestions regarding this, please email me.

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