Mo'PaQ 2000: The Official Client of the MPQ API Library
Build 2210 for Windows 9x, NT, and 2000

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Introduction

Time comes, and time goes. What was once new is now old; and what is now great will soon decay. Such is the way of all the world; people, places, things, and even computer programs. When I wrote MoPaQ 2000, almost three years ago, it was something totally new, and desperately needed by the community. At the time we knew how to view MPQ archives, and do great things with the files inside of them, but we did not yet have an effective method to actually work with the MPQs themselves. In fact, it was really Lelik who did the work of the LMPQAPI editing engine; I simply wrote a nice user interface around it.
Nevertheless, once released, MoPaQ 2000 spread like wildfire. In December of 2000, MoPaQ 2000 had 2,300 downloads; 13,000 in 2001; 10,000 in the first 8 months of 2002. A sharp downturn took place on September 17, when Desler attacked the CC server. Average downloads fell from 35 per day to just 2.  Honestly, I don't know why so many people were still downloading it, up until then. MoPaQ 2000 is almost three years old, and very clearly showing its age. I never bothered to update it to support Starcraft 1.08 or 1.09; nor did I update it to support Warcraft III's new compression method.
After helping ShadowFlare make SFMPQAPI to replace LMPQAPI, I figured that everybody would just switch over to WinMPQ, as it not only provided a graphical interface, but it could also run MoPaQ 2000 command lines and scripts. But they didn't. Not even in the end. I suppose I can't blame them, as up until the most recent version (released earlier this month), WinMPQ was hideously slow. But now that WinMPQ fully uses SFMPQAPI, that issue has been taken off the table. So, this is your last notice. MoPaQ 2000 is finished. It's obsolete. I've left it up solely for programs that still rely on it. It's time to move onward and upward. I leave things in the capable hands of ShadowFlare and WinMPQ.

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Program Files
Mo'PaQ 2000 - 166K. The Mo'PaQ 2000 executable, data files, user's manual, and the MPQ API Library DLL
- A very useful utility to use with MPQ2K. Allows you to right-click on a folder in Explorer and click Command Prompt Here to open an MS-DOS Prompt in that directory. To install, right-click on the DOSHERE.INF file and select Install after downloading. This utility is written by Microsoft, and can originally found at the Windows 95 Power Toys Set
Sample Scripts
Legacy of the Confederation 2 - Some practical application of the script language. This is the script I made for Oracle. It is the one used to make the not-yet-released MPQ version of LotC2.

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