ampersandrew@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-223 hours agoEA has open sourced a bunch of old Command & Conquer gamesgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1744arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: hitsave@preserve.gamesfreegames@feddit.ukhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1741arrow-down1external-linkEA has open sourced a bunch of old Command & Conquer gamesgithub.comampersandrew@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-223 hours agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hitsave@preserve.gamesfreegames@feddit.ukhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squarepolle@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoCan you say why? The opensource project is already insanely good.
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoTo make the opensource project even better! :P The compiler has optimized the rendering engine too much to be decompiled into any useable code. Somebody is working on Linux and 64bit support which will need to have this completely rewritten. https://github.com/dkfans/keeperfx/blob/master/src/bflib_render_gpoly.c The maintainer of KeeperFX told me that EA does not have the original code anymore though.
Can you say why? The opensource project is already insanely good.
To make the opensource project even better! :P
The compiler has optimized the rendering engine too much to be decompiled into any useable code. Somebody is working on Linux and 64bit support which will need to have this completely rewritten. https://github.com/dkfans/keeperfx/blob/master/src/bflib_render_gpoly.c
The maintainer of KeeperFX told me that EA does not have the original code anymore though.