IRC logs for #opendune on OFTC at 2012-12-09
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19:45:33 <klaus> hey guys, I am in the last atreides mission, playing on play-dune.com (great work by whoever ported the game to run in a browser). What are anti aircraft units that I can build?
20:35:26 <Xaroth|Work> klaus: missile turrets
20:35:38 <Xaroth|Work> and/or missile launcher units, but they tend to blow up half your own base instead
20:35:42 <Xaroth|Work> so i'd go with missile turrets
21:17:07 <lulzh3ad> TrueBrain, is your asm -> C converter available somewhere ?
21:20:50 <lulzh3ad> it would be quite handy for some good old games
21:21:13 <TrueBrain> check our forums; a lot about that is written :)
21:22:09 <TrueBrain> (why it is no longer available etc)
21:28:06 <TrueBrain> basically, lots of reasons, but mostly that it doesn't work for 99% of the software, and I totally lost interest in making it work for any other game :)
22:28:31 <lulzh3ad> well, maybe someone else would want to do that
22:32:13 <TrueBrain> a hand full of people have asked
22:32:29 <TrueBrain> some I ahve shared the code with
22:32:32 <TrueBrain> all ran away scared :P
22:32:41 <TrueBrain> I always wanted to do a rewrite of the code
22:32:44 <TrueBrain> to make it easier and more readable
22:32:47 <TrueBrain> so others could use it
22:32:50 <TrueBrain> but I never got that far
22:32:52 <TrueBrain> and totally lost interest
22:33:01 <TrueBrain> nobody has given me any project for me to regain that interest
22:33:09 <TrueBrain> also, people often confuse with what is realistic possible
22:33:12 <TrueBrain> and what they hope can be done
22:33:23 <TrueBrain> as example, 32bit protected mode applications are VERY ahrd and most likely will never be done
22:33:31 <TrueBrain> which means any game after 1995 is a big NO
22:34:04 <TrueBrain> but yeah, I wrote a post of 5 on the forums about it, explaining how it works, and how one can recreate it
22:34:09 <TrueBrain> and why I stopped working on it :)
23:31:38 <lulzh3ad> anyway, i think it cant hurt to dump it onto github in case someone can use it, and if only to learn from it
23:32:08 <lulzh3ad> with a bit red note on it: "EXPERIMENTAL, INCOMPLETE, NO SUPPORT"
23:32:45 <lulzh3ad> that's at least better than letting it bitrot on a hdd that may die some day
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