unvcl

A cli tool and lib to extract sound-files from *.vcl files. VCL is a file-format which is mainly used by some early DOS games developed by Epic Megagames.

Usage

unvcl expects two arguments: The source vcl file and a target directory in to which the samples should be extracted.

Example

Extract all PCM samples from jill1.vcl and store them as WAV file in the current directory

$ unvcl ~/Games/JILL1/jill1.vcl . 

List extracted files

$ ls *.wav
jill1_0.wav   jill1_11.wav  jill1_13.wav  jill1_15.wav  jill1_17.wav  jill1_19.wav  jill1_20.wav  jill1_22.wav  jill1_3.wav  jill1_5.wav  jill1_7.wav  jill1_9.wav
jill1_10.wav  jill1_12.wav  jill1_14.wav  jill1_16.wav  jill1_18.wav  jill1_1.wav   jill1_21.wav  jill1_2.wav   jill1_4.wav  jill1_6.wav  jill1_8.wav

Building from source

Clone this repo then run make build_all to build binaries for Linux, MacOS and Windows.