New Map for Privateer & Righteous Fire

If your gonna hack stuff, why don't you fix the game for everyone? Hack the main .exe file so that privateer will run IN windows, without a dos reboot!
 
umm... because that's a major insane job. You can hex edit simple things like systems and the like (which still aren't that simple)... but JEMM and the way Privateer manages memory are rather core to the program and they aren't things that can be changed easily (by which I mean, without an insane, cracked out, huge amount of work over a very very long time) without the source code of the various files. It's not like you're going through and using a relatively simple syntax, you'd be attempting to change parts of the basic structure of the code without knowing what each part did. It's nearly impossible to do, realistically.

TC
 
Didn't the Ultima people manage that? It'd be a whole different sort of development, though... probably something external to P1.
 
Hmm... I dunno... possibly... I don't know much about what ultima people have done... if you're talking about the Ultima VII thingy, I'm pretty sure you could play it in windows anyway, it just had problems.

TC
 
Originally posted by Kazan
Oh you decoded the format? so you want a TRE repackager i suppose.... ill write it tommorow or thrusday
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Well I haven't really decoded anything, but I'm experimenting. Which is kinda difficult, if you have no way to test out the end results :). The result in this case, hopefully, will be the reappearance of the Steltek base in RF.
 
I know it would be hard, but it would be worth it. It would ensure that privateer will continue to work with new PC's into the future.
 
Hehe.. no it wouldn't... it's perfectly playable on modern systems. Whatever you do to it, it still won't run in any DOS-less OS (Windows NT or 2K) so it doesn't really achieve anything for the amount of effort involved (if the project were even possible)

TC
 
Ah, wouldn't it take a team working consistently and co-operatively over several years without pay or source code to do it?
 
Why, I believe you're supposed to be :). I'm afraid there's not much I can do or even learn to do, unless you can get me a TRE builder.
 
So what is exactly being done about this map? By the way, I always thought it was very dodgy that on the WC map Gemini is quite well, enclosed in that there's hardly any jumps out!
 
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