News
March 6, 2008
DropMPQ 0.7.1 is now available. It’s a small update that adds support for dropping folders on the application’s icon in Finder or the Dock.
February 28, 2008
Almost 3 years without any updates :p In any case, DropMPQ 0.7 is now available. All the details as usual are in the blog post.
August 22, 2005
The project page is now up. This isn’t a very important project, so I doubt there will be frequent updates. Nevertheless, it’s a nifty little utility and I’ll do my best to keep it up to date with the latest MPQ specifications. As such, an update will be forthcoming to add proper UI support for BZIP2 compression which was added to the MPQ specification with World of Warcraft.
Summary
DropMPQ is a simple application that lets you pack folders in MoPaQ archives. MoPaQ archives, or MPQ archives for short, were invented by Blizzard Entertainment Inc. to deliver their content to end users and have been in use since the original Diablo. The format hasn’t changed much over the years with the exception of multi-algorithm compression (StarCraft), zlib compression (Warcraft 3) and bzip2 compression (World of Warcraft).
DropMPQ is essentially a thin client on top of MPQKit, a Foundation-based framework for Mac OS X that offers full support for reading and writing MPQ archives without the help of any external or additional libraries.
DropMPQ is available as a universal binary.
DropMPQ is open source. You can browse the source code thanks to Subversion. If you want a checkout, simply use the repository URL in your favorite Subversion client.