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## Electronic Messages
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This chapter documents the electronic messages that the hacker receives either through triggers or collecting them.
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This means e-mails (including video mails), logs and data fragments - everything the "Multimedia data reader" can show.
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### Text Format
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The [text resources](../media/Texts.md#electronic-messages) for the messages contain both the content, as well as the
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meta information, encoded in text form. Any such message resource has the following string blocks:
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1 line Meta info
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1 line Title
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1 line Sender
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1 line Subject
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N lines Verbose text
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1 line Empty
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M lines Terse text
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1 line Empty
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The ```Meta info``` line describes what to show additionally. This text has the following format:
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meta-info := [event " "] [color " "] [left-mfd] ["," [" "] right-mfd]
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event := ("i" hex2) | "t"
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color := "c" hex2
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left-mfd := dec
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right-mfd := dec
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Examples:
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"13, 18"
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"i17 8"
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"t cD1 23,23"
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"cD1 23,6"
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For most of the messages, at least ```left-mfd``` is specified. ```left-mfd``` and ```right-mfd``` are decimal offset
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numbers that refer to the image to show in the respective MFD. The offset is based on resource ```0x0028```.
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If ```left-mfd``` is greater or equal 256, then the message refers to a video mail. Video mails don't have an MFD image.
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If specified, the ```color``` field identifies a hexadecimal colour palette index. This colour is used to draw the sender and subject lines.
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The ```event``` field chains messages together. "i" events identify the message that must immediately follow the current one;
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The hexadecimal number is the offset for the next message (based on resource ```0x0989```). Such interrupt messages then have "t" as event.
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> The vanilla resource files contain a few messages with errors in them:
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> There are some "stub email" messages with empty header lines, the text "stub email" twice and only one terminating empty line.
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> Furthermore, there is one message in ```gerstrng.res``` which misses the terminating empty line in the terse text.
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### Text Content
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Within the texts, the substring ```$N``` is the placeholder for the name of the hacker.
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### Audio
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Corresponding audio resources are based on ID ```0x0AB5```. If an electronic message with ID X has audio, the audio will have resource ID ```0x0AB5``` + X. (Also: resource ID of text resource + 300)
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These audio resources are [MOVI resources](../media/moviResources.md) with only the audio component. The audio recordings are stored in the files
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```citalog.res``` (English), ```geralog.res``` (German) and ```frnalog.res``` (French).
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