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Post #AxIu31SEDOOJ7k7tJ2 by [email protected] |
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Thinking about Starflight again. I know about the reverse engineering project b… |
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Post #AxIu31ZfliLVUpbpuS by [email protected] |
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The Forth thing was a very cool and clever way to build those games in the mid … |
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Post #AxIu31fLQcsnmQGMka by [email protected] |
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@jplebreton I feel like putting together a sort of ScummVM-like project, to dir… |
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Post #AxIu31kf6r8W2ukc2S by [email protected] |
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@SpindleyQ I'm not certain but that approach would reproduce the original g… |
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Post #AxIu31r2j8EyMhjhz6 by [email protected] |
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@jplebreton yeah, that seems like the work of someone who is just really curiou… |
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Post #AxIu31wiO2mGeIOEpE by [email protected] |
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@jplebreton ah, alright, I downloaded Starflight from an abandonware site and h… |
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Post #AxIu32360Jsiy5NKls by [email protected] |
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@SpindleyQ The game had no on-disk copy protection so my understanding is that … |
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Post #AxIu328PgY8REZra3k by [email protected] |
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@jplebreton but like... it just arbitrarily overwrites its own executables as y… |
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Post #AxIu32DjMmO9V4LpLc by [email protected] |
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@SpindleyQ yes, iirc the box (the old EA folio style) came with two disks, one … |
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Post #AxTQFKN0qt3HNaCIb2 by [email protected] |
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replaying this sucker, for real, maybe. |
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Post #AxUGwnE0dq7iwJ27dI by [email protected] |
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"auto mining" - automatically pick up a mineral deposit if you drive … |
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Post #AxUGwnJgIkf1DtgeTQ by [email protected] |
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something to visually mark whether you've already visited a particular star… |
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Post #AxUGwnQPti33Ymq1yK by [email protected] |
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the UX i could imagine for a modern no-new-graphics port of this would be an im… |
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Post #AxUGwnX9UfR5tfzPTE by [email protected] |
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@jplebreton Incidentally, it's not clear to me why an intentional state sna… |
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Post #AxUGwndB8GFyCMoDrc by [email protected] |
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@mcc it's the specific way this old DOS game handles it; it overwrites the … |
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Post #AxUGwnjujDe0XFxbMW by [email protected] |
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@jplebreton @SpindleyQ oh, that… hm. Hm. Hm |
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Post #AxUGx9ddJFgyS9Btcu by [email protected] |
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@mcc @jplebreton yeah, in practice savegames will be VM snapshots, it's jus… |
