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Wow, that's the original release I did ages ago, with my notes and everything! I spent a few weekends extracting proprietary code/libraries from the code base s

Wow, that's the original release I did ages ago, with my notes and everything! I spent a few weekends extracting proprietary code/libraries from the code base so it could be released. Doing that work changed the direction of my life in a way, leading me from hobby game development work to working on Descent 3.

jcotton42 3y ago
Nice to see a dev on here. Do you ever think the source of Descent 3 could be released?
- kevin42 3y ago
  jcotton as in Kali Jay Cotton? Nice to 'see you' again after all this time! (ps, I think it's funny we both put 42 at the end of our usernames). Short answer is yes. It's probably on me to get official permission and strip out some code we can't legally distribute. I'm not sure how many people I want to look at my code from the 90's though. :) I'll shoot an email to the owners and see if it's ok to get it up on github. It's not too much work for me to strip stuff out.
  - jcotton42 3y ago
    > jcotton as in Kali Jay Cotton Afraid not, funny that I share a username with someone from Kali though. As for the Descent 3 code, that would be awesome! D1 and D2 have been modernized through source ports, but getting D3 to work on modern systems has always been rough, and a source release would be an awesome starting point. What would be the best place to keep tabs on for the release happening?
    - kevin42 3y ago
      Right here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177 Ask and you shall receive! https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3 https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3
      - defrost 3y ago
        Thank you! > This includes the '1.5' patch that Jeff Slutter and Kevin Bentley several years ago. wrote several years ago?? ( no biggie, just a heads up )
        kevin42 3y ago
        Ha, thanks. But shame on you, you should have sent a pull request. :)
      - jcotton42 3y ago
        Woah, that was fast!
RecycledEle 3y ago
Thank you for your excellent work. It changed my life. (See my post above about a senior project.)

jcotton42 3y ago

Nice to see a dev on here. Do you ever think the source of Descent 3 could be released?

kevin42 3y ago
jcotton as in Kali Jay Cotton? Nice to 'see you' again after all this time! (ps, I think it's funny we both put 42 at the end of our usernames). Short answer is yes. It's probably on me to get official permission and strip out some code we can't legally distribute. I'm not sure how many people I want to look at my code from the 90's though. :) I'll shoot an email to the owners and see if it's ok to get it up on github. It's not too much work for me to strip stuff out.
- jcotton42 3y ago
  > jcotton as in Kali Jay Cotton Afraid not, funny that I share a username with someone from Kali though. As for the Descent 3 code, that would be awesome! D1 and D2 have been modernized through source ports, but getting D3 to work on modern systems has always been rough, and a source release would be an awesome starting point. What would be the best place to keep tabs on for the release happening?
  - kevin42 3y ago
    Right here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177 Ask and you shall receive! https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3 https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3
    - defrost 3y ago
      Thank you! > This includes the '1.5' patch that Jeff Slutter and Kevin Bentley several years ago. wrote several years ago?? ( no biggie, just a heads up )
      - kevin42 3y ago
        Ha, thanks. But shame on you, you should have sent a pull request. :)
    - jcotton42 3y ago
      Woah, that was fast!

RecycledEle 3y ago

Thank you for your excellent work. It changed my life. (See my post above about a senior project.)