#!/bin/bash games=$(cat "$1") # make temp file with just the key/value pairs (strip blank lines, comments, eof marker) records=$(mktemp) awk '!/^$|^#|^\[/' > "$records" # make temp assembly source file that represents the binary OKVS data structure source=$(mktemp) (echo "*=0" # dummy program counter for assembler echo "!le16 $(wc -l <"$records"), 0" # OKVS header while IFS="=" read -r key value; do [ -n "$value" ] && filename="$value" || filename="$key" line=$(echo "$games" | awk '/,'"$filename"'=/') needsjoystick=$(echo "$line" | cut -c1) # 'requires joystick' flag (0 or 1) needs128k=$(echo "$line" | cut -c2) # 'requires 128K' flag (0 or 1) displayname=$(echo "$line" | awk -F= '{ print $2 }') echo "!byte ${#key}+${#value}+${#displayname}+5" # OKVS record length echo "!byte ${#key}" # OKVS key length echo "!text \"$key\"" # OKVS key echo "!byte ${#value}" # OKVS value length echo "!text \"$value\"" # OKVS value echo "!byte ${#displayname}" echo "!text \"$displayname\"" echo "!byte $((needsjoystick*128))+$((needs128k*64))" done < "$records") > "$source" # assemble temp source file into binary OKVS data structure, then output that out=$(mktemp) acme -o "$out" "$source" cat "$out" # clean up rm "$out" rm "$source" rm "$records"