USA Games
Update
3/8/2006
Hello fellow gamers,
We have some very good news. As of today March 8, 2006 we have finally
come in to possession of the Alchemy game source code and account
records. This means probably tomorrow we can begin work on Raceway,
Montezuma's Revenge, and start to get the account records in to our own
order system which wasn't ready for this level of use quite yet.
Although, we now have the source in hand it will take some time to get
up-to-speed with the way Montezuma's Revenge and raceway were written.
For starts Monty is written in Visual Basic 6 which is a language I
once used quite allot, but haven't used in about 3 years. A time when I
began using C# and Visual Basic .NET instead. So obviously it may take
some getting use to using the older VB language again, and DirectX 8
instead of 9. That doesn't include just reading all the notes, figure
out how to use the engine tools, etc... In other words learn how he
wrote the game, and go from there.
As for Raceway it appears to be between two different writes. Some of
the game is in Visual Basic 6, but James let me know he was converting
it all over to VB .NET so he could take advantage of DirectX 9 and
better joystick and game controller support with force feedback. It will
take some time to complete the work James started with the convert let
alone debug, and make a demo of it.
We do have all of Alchemy's and ESP's sales records for Raceway and
Montezuma's Revenge, but we are having some problems on our end. Tonight
when attempting to install Office 2000 I found out that the disk either
has a finger print is scratched. In either case I am not able to get MS
Access 2000 on my main computer, and until I figure out how to handle
this I can't do much with the records Although, James did supply us with
text copies as well, but will be much harder to sort for someones info.
Finally, we would like to let everyone know that STFC 1.0 public beta
has been packaged, and uploaded to the web server. The only thing that
needs to be done is finish updating the USA Games site, and get a
downloads page up for it. We hope to have that up by the end of the
week, but I am not saying for sure it will be there. Just that I hope to.
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