Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-07 Thread deadalnix
Le 07/02/2012 07:16, Walter Bright a écrit : On 2/6/2012 8:08 PM, bcs wrote: Some side effect of some long ago licensing agreement with a company that is now nothing more than a fileing cabinet full of paper and a lawyer on retainer? No. Empire is entirely mine. OK, that is understandable.

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread deadalnix
Le 06/02/2012 03:44, Bernard Helyer a écrit : I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so good! There are some rough edges; the save games

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Mattbeui
On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 02:44:40 UTC, Bernard Helyer wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so good! There are some rough

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread deadalnix
Le 06/02/2012 05:16, Walter Bright a écrit : On 2/5/2012 6:44 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so good!

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 06/02/2012 02:44, Bernard Helyer wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so good! And it has a retro look to it. But why is the

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 12:42:31 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 06/02/2012 02:44, Bernard Helyer wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 10:55:22 UTC, Mattbeui wrote: The source code is open or you did reverse engineering? On classicempire.com there's a version for windows written in an old version of D (old enough that it wouldn't even compile with a modern copy of DMD1). I took that code and

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Mattbeui
On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 13:51:52 UTC, Bernard Helyer wrote: On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 10:55:22 UTC, Mattbeui wrote: The source code is open or you did reverse engineering? On classicempire.com there's a version for windows written in an old version of D (old enough that it wouldn't

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 06/02/2012 13:48, Bernard Helyer wrote: snip I started with Walter's original 2.01 D release. The font I'm using is proportional, so I've not a problem there. You mean The font I'm using is fixed? You'd have to for it to make any sense. But do look at the StatusPanel class in my version

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 18:04:24 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 06/02/2012 13:48, Bernard Helyer wrote: snip I started with Walter's original 2.01 D release. The font I'm using is proportional, so I've not a problem there. You mean The font I'm using is fixed? You'd have to for it to

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread bcs
On 02/06/2012 03:00 AM, deadalnix wrote: Le 06/02/2012 05:16, Walter Bright a écrit : On 2/5/2012 6:44 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/6/2012 8:08 PM, bcs wrote: Some side effect of some long ago licensing agreement with a company that is now nothing more than a fileing cabinet full of paper and a lawyer on retainer? No. Empire is entirely mine.

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Tuesday, 7 February 2012 at 06:18:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/6/2012 4:42 AM, Stewart Gordon wrote: The version I've contributed I emailed to Walter and he eventually put it up on the website. Is there any reason the same can't be done in this instance? Nope. Send it to me.

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-06 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/6/2012 4:42 AM, Stewart Gordon wrote: The version I've contributed I emailed to Walter and he eventually put it up on the website. Is there any reason the same can't be done in this instance? Nope. Send it to me.

[OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-05 Thread Bernard Helyer
I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so good! There are some rough edges; the save games fail to load, demo isn't working, the text log

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-05 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/5/2012 6:44 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so good! There are some rough edges; the save games fail

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-05 Thread Caligo
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Bernard Helyer b.hel...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so good! There are some

Re: [OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

2012-02-05 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 04:33:56 UTC, Caligo wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Bernard Helyer b.hel...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his websites, but apparently _that's_ a dead end so... http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png Look at it! The selection