what open source games would you like to see on dc

[quote author=Groggy link=board=homebrew;num=1086094053;start=45#48 date=06/11/04 at 05:36:53]Am l right in assuming one could get a SDL source code and then sit down with it and convert it for DC? I would love to do it if it is easy as that - l have plenty of time, if there is a tutorial or something

"SDL porting is pretty easy take one of the makefiles from my dev projects change the source files change the paths to data etc change the headers. "

I don't have coding experience but l'm pretty cluey so if the main problem with doing it is time l would happily do it![/quote]

That's great - there surely exist some FAQs and manuals somewhere...

As I mentioned above, there's a dev section within our message boards with links to a lot of tutorials, don't know if there's a SDL tutorial though...

Edit: Maybe that will help: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/...num=1082195260

Chris

back to the topic as far as open source games, i don't know. Â*Maybe a clone of darkseed, that was one of the first real kick ass live action games for win95. Â*or I wonder if the liscence is still intact for text games like zork, or demons tomb. Oh I got it! what about dope wars, or crop command. Also there used to be a kick ass qbasic program call "mortal pong" I wish I could find it again. Â*It was mortal kombat pong style. Â*complete with kombat kodes, secret characters, fatalities, pits, a run button two attack buttons super moves, Â*the end guy was name shao pong, even though it was all still a very traditional pong except with different color paddles that had there own names, they attacked across the screen Â*and whole lot more. but that was years ago you would probably need a governor of some kind to run it on anything today, if you could find it.

Do you have any links to these games?


Chris

no but i'll look. Â*I am sure zork and darkseed need no introduction. Â*As for mortal pong like I said I can't find it. Â*unless you know of a qbasic site that carries all those old programs. as for dopewars it's no longer fully open source. Â*they want you make a donation for the full version now. and crop command is the same way. so with an attitude like that i'm not going to help them out. Â*I understand needing some money and taking donations and even hounding people for some donations from time to time. Â*but as a public coder please don't cripple your software. Â*like that one GB emu that cost 35us$ Â*what's up with that? Â*How the heck is public open source coding going to get any better if you don't share you code from time to time? Â*and I am sure these same guys learned from people willing to share their........... sorry got on a rant. Â*anyway I am not bull@@itting these programs really exist and they are some games I used to play in '92.

very cool sdl based rpg stratagy game!
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://www.wesnoth.org/images/sshots/wesnoth-14.jpg

its so pretty ;D

Mabey im insane but i suggested they concider a port for this game in the forum, il probably be flamed so im not going back :-[ . Mabey you guys can give them some more information than I did.
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtop...?p=22276#22276

:o Thank you! Looks great! I'll support this idea by joining their forums tomorrow... really tired now :P


Chris

holy crap! look at the lead developers comment!

"Hi there,

We'd certainly be interested in a Dreamcast port, although I don't think anyone on our development team has the skills, resources, or time to do it. But if someone was interested in doing it we'd support them however we could.

David"


!!! I got a ringer !!!

[quote author=1timeuser link=board=homebrew;num=1086094053;start=45#57 date=06/12/04 at 06:50:08]holy crap! look at the lead developers comment!

"Hi there,

We'd certainly be interested in a Dreamcast port, although I don't think anyone on our development team has the skills, resources, or time to do it. But if someone was interested in doing it we'd support them however we could.

David"


!!! I got a ringer !!![/quote]

:o WTF! ;D Holy shxt!

*...gone dancing!*

Edit: For further discussion about this game check out this topic at our boards:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/...num=1087024756

Chris

Christ I have no idea what I am doing. Can you please contact them?

this is the lead developers email - [email protected]