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It doesn't seem to me that any of these guys have anything to do with the original title besides getting the license. Not that necessarily means anything bad fo

by dfan 12y ago

It doesn't seem to me that any of these guys have anything to do with the original title besides getting the license. Not that necessarily means anything bad for the game, of course. Trivia: The original Descent was written in assembly language, probably one of the last major PC games not to be written in a high-level language.

GauntletWizard 12y ago
Even later still was Rollercoaster Tycoon; Both one and two were primarily in assembly, with a little bit of C to interact with windows [1] [1] http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm
- dfan 12y ago
  Ha, I figured that there were probably some other crazy people after 1994 that I didn't know about. Thanks for the info!
daveloyall 12y ago
Parallax eventually released the source for Descent 1 and 2, you know. It was C. (At least the majority of it?) Edit: I can't access this domain from work, but perhaps somebody else can confirm this. http://descent2.com/ddn/sources/descent1/ http://descent2.com/ddn/sources/descent1/ Originally it built with some Borland product, and some folks put a lot of time and effort into porting it to MingW32. Eventually, it gained SDL support, then OpenGL support... These days, you can apt-get install d1x-rebirth and d2x-rebirth. :)
- dfan 12y ago
  Those links lead to 404s, but it looks like it's all on Github as well: https://github.com/drguildo/Descent https://github.com/drguildo/Descent Indeed I was wrong that it's all assembler. There is lots of assembler but plenty of C too.
  - daveloyall 12y ago
    Thanks for checking! That repo appears to be the original source release, unaltered. IIRC there are some non-free bits in there that Parallax missed. (They discuss this in the interview in README.TXT.) Anybody remember DEVIL, the 3rd party Descent Level Editor? :) Descent was my first exposure to hacking. I'd hex edit save-game files and give myself 255 shield-value.. ;)
Mithaldu 12y ago
> Not that necessarily means anything bad for the game They're selling ships. There's not much more bad you can do for Descent.

by dfan 12y ago

GauntletWizard 12y ago

Even later still was Rollercoaster Tycoon; Both one and two were primarily in assembly, with a little bit of C to interact with windows [1] [1] http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm

dfan 12y ago
Ha, I figured that there were probably some other crazy people after 1994 that I didn't know about. Thanks for the info!

daveloyall 12y ago

Parallax eventually released the source for Descent 1 and 2, you know. It was C. (At least the majority of it?) Edit: I can't access this domain from work, but perhaps somebody else can confirm this. http://descent2.com/ddn/sources/descent1/ http://descent2.com/ddn/sources/descent1/ Originally it built with some Borland product, and some folks put a lot of time and effort into porting it to MingW32. Eventually, it gained SDL support, then OpenGL support... These days, you can apt-get install d1x-rebirth and d2x-rebirth. :)

dfan 12y ago
Those links lead to 404s, but it looks like it's all on Github as well: https://github.com/drguildo/Descent https://github.com/drguildo/Descent Indeed I was wrong that it's all assembler. There is lots of assembler but plenty of C too.
- daveloyall 12y ago
  Thanks for checking! That repo appears to be the original source release, unaltered. IIRC there are some non-free bits in there that Parallax missed. (They discuss this in the interview in README.TXT.) Anybody remember DEVIL, the 3rd party Descent Level Editor? :) Descent was my first exposure to hacking. I'd hex edit save-game files and give myself 255 shield-value.. ;)

Mithaldu 12y ago

> Not that necessarily means anything bad for the game They're selling ships. There's not much more bad you can do for Descent.