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Offline BlackBox

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« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2004, 03:36:14 PM »
I know how the OP2_ART.BMP is formatted, it's very basic... I also know some about how the image wells are formatted, and the 1st part of the PRT.... but I don't know anything about the PRT beyond the palettes.

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« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2004, 03:41:22 PM »
It may be basic, but if you don't know, you don't know. :P

Would you care to enlighten me? :)
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« Reply #27 on: August 04, 2004, 01:23:31 PM »
Of course Ill sign but is the source code REALLY destroyed??

NOOO!!!

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« Reply #28 on: August 04, 2004, 03:47:41 PM »
yes it is Nightmare

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« Reply #29 on: August 04, 2004, 08:40:24 PM »
They didn't even keep a backup copy? Why the hell would anyone just kill their sourc code :unsure:?

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Offline PlayingOutpost0-24

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« Reply #30 on: August 05, 2004, 01:56:28 AM »
Yes i think they backupped it in the development time. then they simply pressed <delete> and distributed the game...

Sierra was evil....  B)

Ill sign...
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« Reply #31 on: August 07, 2004, 08:23:11 PM »
Hmmm Ill have a talk wiht the lead programmer <_<...
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« Reply #32 on: August 07, 2004, 08:55:56 PM »
lol just dont lets the feeling of Sierra get you and force you to join... the Sierraists!
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Offline Hooman

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« Reply #33 on: August 08, 2004, 02:19:17 AM »
If there was a petition, I'd sign. I just wish there was still hope with source code.

And why would anyone want to make a 3D sequel? What would that really add to the game? All I can see is that it would make my computer lag because I'm never gonig to get a good computer/graphics card.

Long live 2D games! Long live  :op2: !

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« Reply #34 on: August 08, 2004, 05:49:15 AM »
Hey, dont worry i thought that 4 years ago too... two days later i got a new processor, video card, memory and sound card... lol

Btw, isnt there a way to reverse engineer the whole game?
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Offline Hooman

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« Reply #35 on: August 08, 2004, 02:48:04 PM »
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Btw, isnt there a way to reverse engineer the whole game?

You mean over 400000 lines of assembly?

Count me out. That would take many many years. It would be faster to just start from scratch. I guess if you wanted to make a clone that was very accurate to the original, then you could just reverse engineer parts of it. (Large parts of it). But then again, I think you should get a good enough idea about how it works from playing it. Besides, the original is a little unbalanced at times. I'm somewhat content with making small tweaks to the original while waiting for one of the OP3 projects to arrive.

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« Reply #36 on: August 10, 2004, 02:45:11 AM »
Well the Edenians and Plymouthians reverse engineered THEIR databases in a quick while so maybe we could rewrite it? IDK...

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