| Pie in the sky dream request: Demoville for modern v1.13[message #362055]
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Tue, 15 December 2020 03:20
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 Matryoshka |
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Messages:90
Registered:September 2004
Location: New Zealand |
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I know that people have built the Demoville map in v1.13 before -- I still have a copy from 2008 that replaced sector C9. But having found my old PC Gamer demo-disc set and reinstalled the original ja2 demo for a brief spin (where I promptly got my butt whooped), my pie-in-the-sky dream is to be able to play the old demo as we experienced it back in '98-'99(!), complete with Gabby's yammering and Jake's little junk-shop and that munitions factory with Creepy Critters in the sublevel, but with all the new toys and tweaks of the modern code (revised attachment slots, LBE, aimed bursts, etc.).
I know it'd take a hellacious amount of work to extract all the data and character scripts from the standalone demo, and rebuilding the demo .exe with all the new features of Build 8796 would be almost as much work as rebuilding the current code from scratch, so the realistic likelihood is that it's never going to happen. But I can daydream, right?
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