A deep sweep over the leftover files in the download tree turned up real treasure. Everything was hash-classified against the archive’s fingerprints first — then harvested:
- 27 maps integrated as their own cards, each marked “(alt build)”: earlier or later builds of maps the archive already ships — the map data genuinely differs, so both versions are kept (e.g. Terra Nova, The Isles Of Atlantis, Flash and Blood, Planet Battle Zone North/South)
- 145 original Cavedog installers from 1998 (Wise self-extracting archives, “Copyright 1998 Cavedog Entertainment”) found intact and preserved to external storage — irreplaceable originals
- 112 byte-identical duplicate copies removed (1.9 GB), 35 alternate packagings of existing maps archived with checksums
Every new card carries its original minimap and the mission text from its own
.ota file. One file (Atlantian States) was found corrupted and is being
re-fetched before it joins the archive.