Source code: Apple EA games have a similar feature. You can find snippets of comments and assembly. But its all over (lots and lots of titles, not just 1 or 2).
Command HQ and Global Conquest: Both. Dan/Dani was brilliant. Once in a great while I still light up Modem War. It still ran unmodified on a 1Ghz PIII, probably still works on a P-IV. I have a copy of Mule that I will never ever sell. It is in really good shape. Awesome game. Interestingly, Dan(i) is not the only classic programmer to make a switch:
http://atari.games.free.fr/atarixl/authors/william%20mataga_e.htm
Jim: Thanks for the point about the code first, props second :)
Side note: I sent a developer who worked for Epyx an e-mail out of the blue about 18 months ago and got a rather friendly reply. I should ask and see if he has any code laying around :) (pressing my luck here I know, but gotta try.)
On Jan 6, 2004, at 2:47 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Dan Chisarick wrote:What would I *really* love to have? Source code. To anything. Old
Do some digging! A friend and I got the original ASM code to Jumpman on the PC/PCjr just by asking -- check out the "jumpman lives!" project (google) to see a rewritten version based on that code that runs on modern machines.
Here's some more fun facts: On the original PC version of Wizardry (the REALLY original one, with the drawing logo and music, and non-rounded graphics), do a raw sector dump of the entire disk and you'll see that there are 512-byte sectors filled with some of the original Pascal source code! Laughed my ass off when I saw that -- the disk they sent to the duplicator obviously hadn't been formatted prior to writing the final game to it :-D
.. and I know people have acquired the rights to "Command HQ" and "Global Conquest" (I bought the add-ons to both at one point) but I would *really* love to see the code.
Because you love the games, or because both were written by the legendary Dan Buntin/Dani Berry?
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