Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby

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Ruby is the last language most people would reach for to take a binary game archive apart. It turned out to be one of the best — File.binread, String#unpack, and a dependency-free reader for Codemasters’ BIGF format, built AI-assisted the whole way.

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