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## Current status
### Chaos Gate
Some of the original file formats are either partially or fully decoded. Maps,
menus, and most visual data can be rendered pixel-perfect. Sound can be played
(with a preprocessing step). Some UI tookit work is done. No game mechanics are
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seems to use the same engine. Maybe at some point Ordoor will be able to play
both. Will that need a rename? Hmm. Watch this space.
### Soldiers At War
(At least some) objects display. Map support is being worked on in the
`soldiers-at-war` branch, which can more-or-less display them, albeit with many
errors.
### Squad Leader
Squad Leader is the most recent of the games created with this engine. Nothing
has been done with it yet, but a preliminary look at the game data suggests many
changes are afoot. The object files are a different format, at the very least.
### Wages of War
This is the oldest of the four games. The object file format seems to be mostly
the same. the installer only copies some data to the game directory; we may want
to work directly from the CDROM instead, if we can.
Maps are uncompressed, around 243K, and no header is present. They look similar
in principle to the tile data of Soldiers At War or Chaos Gate maps, otherwise.
The menu system seen in Chaos Gate is not present; instead, there is a `BUTTONS`
directory and a lot of `pcx` files under `PIC` that, I suspect, do the job for
this game.
## Long-term goals
Once full playthrough of the official single-player campaign for all four games