[News] Raven software releases Hexen 2 source code | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Nov-2000 10:40 GMT by Remco Komduur | 11 comments View flat View list |
Raven software have open sourced the Hexen 2 source code. It is the counterpart from Heretic 2 but Hexen 2 is based on the Quake source code and also GLQuake.
You can get the source code at FilePlanet which is also a great place to get maps and other stuff for your games. GameSpy.com has the full details of this release. Now all we need is someone with the knowledge to convert this game.
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Comment 1 | Corwin | | 11-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
Comment 2 | darthanoia | | 11-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
Comment 3 | Hans-Jörg Frieden | | 11-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
Comment 4 | Henrik Nordhus | | 11-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
Comment 5 | Anonymous | | 11-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
Comment 6 | Hans-Jörg Frieden | | 11-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
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Raven software releases Hexen 2 source code : Comment 7 of 11 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Georg Steger on 12-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | Porting such games could probably be done in a much shorter time
if one first tried to port it to AROS. Why?
1. Compiling is much much faster. Compiling DoomAttack on my Amiga
(68030/50: okay, one cannot compare this with 060 or PPC) took
at least as long as it takes me to compile the whole AROS package
with all programs coming with it (AROS itself, Quake, Doom, Directory
Opus, FreeType, BGUI, ...) under Linux x86 on an already quite old
P2/266.
2. When trying the game out in AROS you will never crash the computer,
only AROS which is a normal Linux program (process). You can "boot"
AROS in 1 to 2 seconds.
3. Initially you dont have to care about endianess. Because everything
you run in AROS under Linux x86 is of course also little endian.
4. Once you got the game to work in AROS you can port it back to AmigaOS,
where it'll be more or less just the endianess problems that you'll have
to fix (because of the Amiga CPUs being big endian). |
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