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This is an old classic dos game, adventure birds eye view, anyone played it before? Heard of it? Wouldn't this be great on the IT. Also it seems someones reversed engineered the LBA engine making it open source. Tell me if I'm wrong, is this possible to port to the IT ? If you need the game cd original files to make it possible, I can up them for you porters. The game is just a bunch of bitmaps with a few polys it seems. Course, I could be so wrong.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/twin-e/

This engine is windows only (and version 0.1, which somehow doesn't give me confidence that it will run

Yea saw that after the fact. Shucks.

This post in the forums makes me think it isnt Windows only...

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p...orum_id=373596

Course that doesnt mean it will work, but someone managed to compile it in Linux...


-John

good find. Im really not knowledgable about this at all. I did email him though, the guy who posted that. Id indeed pay for this on my IT.

Okay, good news - it compiles and even runs with some fiddling with the resolutions (was hardcoded on 32bit). Complains about a cdrom at some point, will get back to it when i have the time.

Removed the cdrom check, but it fails when trying to load some files...

Bundyo, runs as a port? Not on dosbox right? Thats pretty cool. I wonder about the cdrom though. Is there a virtual mounting drive app for ITs? A cd crack wouldn't work i bet.

No, it is using the CD only for playing 10 tracks of music. I think

Anyway, linux doesn't need a virtual mounting blabla, because you can mount an ISO as drive with mount...

Oh ok, sounds promising. So you get into a couple screens then it won't let you play right? Do you get to the menu?

I'm able to choose new game from the menu, then watch some screens with text and when the real game should start it dies with segmentation fault. I was able to trace it to when it tries to load some data files. However i have no idea if it loads them correctly since they are in a custom format.