That is true Tom, however this also hinges upon the copywrite issue.
i have a program for instance entitled prince of persia total pack. This not
only plays the original prince of persia game with a preconfigured dosbox,
but includes innumerables mods, custome made levels, graphics, sfx etc,
Hi Dark,
Well, I don't really see anything wrong with it either. After all if
a company has abandoned the game, left it to fade out of existance, by
rights they should just give it to the public to do whatever with.
However, as you say the one big problem is copyrights. They don't want
to do that
Peterson
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error
The main down side to Audio Quake I saw is that I couldn't find the demo,
and that seems about as far as the accessibility went apparently.
We are the Knights who
Hi Hayden,
Yes if you want all the features. One reason is, as I recall, even
though the Quake source is open source the sounds, graphics, music,
etc are not and must be purchased or something like that. I don't
remember all the whys and why nots, but it is something like that as I
recall.
On
Hi Dark,
Oh, I know. It is a serious pain when older games won't run on newer
Windows releases. I know Windows 7 professional has an XP
compatibility mode, but I really don't know how well that works with
any of the games you mentioned below. However, compatibility modes
only go so far. That's why
I think this is another thing that hits accessible games far harder, sinse
there are fewer users, and even fewer people who can investigate
compatibility options.
Take for instance one game I have, the original Turrican 2 released for Dos
in 1991. Someone has created a pre-configured version
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From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:13 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error
Hi Dark,
Oh, I know. It is a serious pain when older games won't run on newer
Hi Hayden,
Oh, I would imagine that would be a major undertaking for any game
developer. The differences between VB 6 and VB .Net are quite
sugnificant. For a developer that knows both it wouldn't be so much
difficult as totally time consuming. Unfortunately, for a developer
like Jim Kitchen he
Hi Dark,
Well, that's why I wish more game companies would do what ID Software
has done in the past with several of their major titles and release
their old releases as open source after so many years has passed. ID
Software released Doom I in 1993 and Quake I in 1996 and both are now
open source
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game Compatibility was Tomb Hunter Error
Hi Dark,
Well, that's why I wish more game companies would do what ID Software
has done in the past with several of their major titles and release
their old releases as open source after so many
Hi Bryan,
Right. Audio Quake certainly could have been done better in my opinion
etc, but that wasn't really my point. The fact is ID Software put
Quake out there in the public domain and I could grab the source and
produce a fully accessible Quake clone tomorrow if I were so inclined
to do so. I
Hi,
VB6 has a poor implementation of OOP called class modules. They can
certainly improve VB6 developers programs, but are missing key
elements, such as inheritance.
The switch from VB6 to VB.NET was the best thing I've ever done!
(Okay, maybe that's a little exaggerated.) What I don't think
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