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Some info about CC! files

I just wanted to let you know that Infogrames never used the ".CC!" extension and also ask you a question about CC1 files.
I know there's a copy of Eternam out there with an "AVE.CC!" file but it was a backup of the original "AVE.CC1"
The new "AVE.CC1" file is patched to bypass the copy protection.

There was a release in French, English, Italian and German, it allows to select between AZERTY, QWERTY & QWERTZ keyboards and another in English and Spanish that did not have that feature.

The Steam and GOG releases are of the first type but they also include the CD version of the game that for some reason includes the Spanish and English texts files, so they can be in Spanish without downloading or "stealing" the file from other places so Steam and GOG shouldn't complain for using files they don't have the rights to distribute.

I modified the file "INFO.TAT" to add support for all five languages (French, English, Italian, German & Spanish) and I used the version that allows to select the keyboard layout just in case somebody wants to run it on a physical computer with French or German keyboards, I don't know if that matters for DOSBox or other emulators.

The file "INFO.CC1" already came in 5 languages but it turns out the text that appears at the bottom of each screen like "Choose your sound card" and so on is not in Spanish but in Guarani, but I had no idea what language it was so I pasted it on Google translator and tried all languages until I found that Guarani was translating perfectly to English, it seems in Paraguay both Spanish and Guarani are official languages.

The menu entries are in correct Spanish, I guess they Spanish translator was from Paraguay and has a lapsus or was smoking "something" ;-)

That file is compressed, I tried your decompression tool found here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=96223 and it works but it would need to be recompressed, I've zero C++ knowledge and even less knowledge about data compression, don't you happen to have a program to re-compress the files to the original format?