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An Unexpected Surprise

In 1993, the game Rebel Assault (v1.2) from LucasArts was released for MS-DOS on CD. It contained a handful of development content that wasn't intended to be shipped, including Deluxe Paint II Enhanced.

I'll be writing up more on this, but for now, here is the archive. It is kept here for historical preservation.

The \ALIASES Directory

Filename My Best Guess
ALIASES/CDON.BAT Empty
ALIASES/DP_PREFS Preferences file for Deluxe Paint
ALIASES/ENV.BAT Shows which environments are available (see also WATCOM.BAT, MSC7.BAT, and SCUMMENV.BAT; [missing INTEL.BAT, apparently])
ALIASES/FOO Empty
ALIASES/GENERIC.BAT Seems to be a template to base other environments off of
ALIASES/MSC6.BAT Environment setup for Microsoft C 6.0
ALIASES/MSC7.BAT Environment setup for Microsoft C/C++ V7.0
ALIASES/SCUMMENV.BAT Environment setup for SCUMM Projects (includes Monkey 1 Sega (Eng/JP), Fate of Atlantis (Sega/French))
ALIASES/SDK.BAT Environment setup for Microsoft Windows SDK V3.1
ALIASES/SETENV.BAT Calls the current config batch file, or tries to call environ.bat if it exists
ALIASES/WATCOM.BAT Environment setup for Watcom C/386

These seem to be DOS aliases used with a LOAD command. (See SDK.BAT for an example.)

Filename My Best Guess
ALIASES/I4MGENG.NRK Indiana Jones 4 and the Fate of Atlantis (Sega Mega CD, English)
ALIASES/I4MGKAN.NRK Indiana Jones 4 and the Fate of Atlantis (Sega Mega CD, Japanese)
ALIASES/M1MGENG.NRK Monkey Island 1 (Sega Mega CD, English)
ALIASES/M1MGKAN.NRK Monkey Island 1 (Sega Mega CD, Japanese)
ALIASES/MSC6.NRK Microsoft C 6.0?
ALIASES/MAIN.NRK Generic aliases

The \UTIL Directory

Notable Tools

Deluxe Paint II Enhanced

Barebones copies of Electronic Arts' famous pixel art application were present. Two versions, actually. Versions 2.1 and 2.3.

DK.EXE

This, from what I recall, is an in-house LucasArts image 'Swiss Army Knife' tool. Among its powers: it could reduce the number of colors in an image, using dithering, or adapt an image to fit an existing palette.

Filename My Best Guess or Command Output
UTIL/2B.BAT Copies files to the B: drive
UTIL/CAMERA.COM Electronic Arts Screen Capture Utility v1.9 (1988, 1989)
UTIL/DEVLOAD.COM DEVLOAD v3.00 - Device Driver Loader (1990, 1991, Helix Software Company)
UTIL/DEVLOD.COM Device driver name required. Quitting program...
UTIL/DIFF.EXE File comparison utility
UTIL/DK.EXE DK v3.7 - Internal LucasArts graphics tool (see more below)
UTIL/DOSVER.EXE Allows you to force a different DOS version number
UTIL/DP.EXE Deluxe Paint II Enhanced (v2.3, 1985, 1990)
UTIL/DRVOFF.EXE usage: drvoff [drive]
UTIL/DRVSET.EXE `usage: drvset [drive] <NET
UTIL/EDP.EXE Deluxe Paint II Enhanced (v2.1, 1985, 1989)
UTIL/FF.EXE A basic GREP-like tool for searching for strings in files
UTIL/HD.EXE Creates a hex dump of a file
UTIL/HD2F.EXE Not enough parameters... format is: hd2f infile outfile
UTIL/INTRLIST.EXE IntrList v1.02 by Window Book Technology - companion to UNDOCUMENTED DOS - an interactive list of DOS interrupts
UTIL/LOCATE.EXE LOCATE list files that match a search argument as follows...
UTIL/LZEXE.EXE LZEXE v0.91 (1989, Fabrice BELLARD) - compression tool
UTIL/MAKE.EXE Microsoft Program Maintenance Utility v4.06 (It's bloody make, mate.)
UTIL/MOVE.BAT Copies a file then deletes the original
UTIL/NETON.BAT Loads some 10-NET drivers and connects to a user's network resource
UTIL/NPRINT.EXE Please specify a filename.
UTIL/PKUNZIP.EXE PKUNZIP v1.1 (03-15-90) - ZIP uncompress
UTIL/PKZIP.EXE PKZIP v1.1 (03-15-90) - ZIP compression
UTIL/PROMODE.COM Diamond <SpeedStar PRO> is not installed.
UTIL/PROTOE.EXE ANSI C, C++ prototype extractor v2.05 (Shareware, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 SOLUCORP)
UTIL/PSH1A.OVL Overlay file
UTIL/PSH2A.OVL Overlay file (PolyShell Utility Command Set, v1.3, 1986, 1988, Thompson Automation, Inc.)
UTIL/REALIAS.BAT Loads alias file from c:\anarkey\aliases\main.nrk (See \ALIASES\MAIN.NRK)
UTIL/RENDIR.COM Probably does what it says on the tin.
UTIL/SMODE.EXE [Carrera mode selection. V1.4 (jja)] Copyright 1990, S3 Incorporated., `Usage: SMODE [] [VGA
UTIL/SWEEP.COM (C) Copyright Charles Petzold, 1985
UTIL/TOUCH.EXE Touch v.3.01 Copyright (C) OPUS Software, 1987-89 (It's bloody touch, mate.)
UTIL/VGA1024.EXE WARNING! You do not have a Paradise VGA card installed!
UTIL/X.BAT Older version of NETON.BAT?
UTIL/X32FIX.EXE FlashTek X-32 Fixup Utility - Watcom util