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Originally Posted by zehjotkah View Post
A Fathammer guy... Unbelieveable!
Do you still have the Tapwave Zodiac games?
I have 4 Tapwave Zodiacsē lying around here...

Would it be possible to port the Zodiac games to maemo??
I'm thinking about Tomb Raider and so on...
Yeah, the founders of Secret Exit are both from Fathammer

We've got the source assets and commercial rights for Firehammer, Angelfish, Geopod, SPiN, Stuntcar Extreme and probably a few other games I can't remember right now.

I don't recall what Tomb Raider there was for Zodiac, but the problem with that (and Spy Hunter etc.) is that licensed content would be more of a hassle to negotiate, and the license holders are unlikely to be interested in such a business case.

And frankly, our time is all spent on our new games. Digging into the old Fathammer svn to wonder how to update both the X-Forge engine and the user interfaces to new devices would unfortunately be almost as much work as developing the same game from scratch.

SPiN was a really nice exception because it was designed to be scalable all the way, but the older games are quite resolution-fixed and even the 3D content is designed for a software renderer.

I'm not saying to abandon all hope, but many of those games haven't really aged so well, and the effort to bring them to new devices would be huge. And before anyone asks, no, we can't open source the games, because the commercial rights of the X-Forge engine are owned by a Japanese company these days
 

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