Status & Open Work

Status & Open Work

This page mirrors the repo’s single status surface, docs/conan/TODO.md. Every genuinely open item gets one row here; the full evidence and paths-tried tables live in the raw notes.

Conan is the outlier of the five games: its containers and pixel formats are solved, but far less of its actual game logic has been recovered than for War in Middle Earth, Spirit or Vengeance — because both Amiga executables carry only 632 bytes of static code, with everything else self-decompressing at runtime. See Cracking a Hostile Executable for how the formats were worked out anyway.

Open items

ID	Status	Question (one line)
conan-frml-combat-animation-ranges	open	Confirm — against code rather than the current render-derived hypothesis — the walk/attack/death frame-range splits for ANIS32.RES 55–89 and ANIM32.RES’s combat sprites. No code-level segmentation table was found anywhere in START.EXE, and the paths-tried table in the raw notes records the searches that came up empty.

This is why the Animation Gallery labels those segments as confidence: 'hypothesis' rather than presenting them as confirmed. The 23 resources that are code-confirmed as single-clip scene decoration — torches, fire, drips — are marked separately.

Solved, with a caveat worth stating

Item	Result
SCEN scene/room format	Fully traced: 6,542 object entries, zero residue. Nothing yet turns that data into a rendered scene the way the other games’ scene galleries do — the trace is complete, the renderer isn’t built.
.L32 / .L16 loader assets	Ordinary resource forks despite the extension, cross-checked pixel-for-pixel against the DOS port: 58 of 60 comparable images identical.
FRML	All 101 resources decode; the open item above is about segmenting them, not decoding them.
DOS port executable header	The scrambled header turned out to be evidence of a copy-protection crack, not an unsupported compressor — a conclusion that only became available by comparing the two ports.

Where to read the full evidence

• docs/conan/TODO.md — the single status surface.
• docs/conan/plan.md — the status table and format-by-format summary.
• docs/conan/amiga/engine.md — the full byte-level spec: resource fork layout, IMAG/FRML/.L32/SCEN formats, palette tables, and the executable-structure and decompression investigation.

The raw notes carry the full evidence, paths-tried tables, and corrections that this page summarises.