GENERAL: I am slow

[Tamerlin]

Happy Birthday kid!

[child of Thor]

Hey Happy Birthday Locutus

Soon you'll be grumbling about how great games USED to be in the old days - like the rest of us old - bustards

hope you had a good un

And yeah someone should make some polite enquiries on the behalf of the CTP community as to the state of play of this code release, nudge-nudge

[ahenobarb]

Happy Birthday Locutus!! (There's a phrase you don't hear everyday)

I believe Activision is holding on to your present right now, but they should be releasing it soon ... I hope

[Petrell]

Originally posted by Keygen
Yes, of cource
I just thought... dreamt of Activision releasing the resources as well since it doesn't have any interest in the CtP series.

Another problem for releasing resources with the source would be the immense size of the download and problem finding hosts for such files (600MB or so). Bandwidht and serverspace is not free.

code is more than many here dared hope for and the problem of lack of resources files can be eventually solved as nothing prevents someone from creating replasement graphics and other resources and offering them for download. hint hint.

But first we have to wait for the code to be released and the programmers here to figure it out before anything can actually be done.

And thanks for Mr Ogre for his efforts

[Blade Runner]

Please enlighten me, but in my experience an API is usually works like calling a function in a .DLL file. (We are talking about Windows of course. ) I am sure we have the right miles DLL somewhere in our CTP2 installed files. If I understand correctly, we cannot copy those some copyright reasons, but for the start we can use it and later switch our functions calling to a different system (like DirectSound, OGG, etc.). IMHO we cannot and we wouldnt just put the whole game on the net anyway, we just would like to fix a few problems, and put a few new features into our CTP2.

[Pyaray]

In order to connect to a DLL most people use a link library. You won't have that .lib file in order to use that. If you wanted to change the source to use enumerated entries into the DLL it may work, but that would be a lot of effort.

Pyaray

[Blade Runner]

Hmmmm... You are right. It will be easier to use something else, than try to figure out all this calls ourselves.
Perhaps we can use ogg for the music and DirectSound for the noise.

[Dale]

We could possibly look to something like FMOD. It's easy to use, and the latest version supports almost every audio codec now. It'll also handle sound FX too, so no need for DirectSound/Music. Hmmm......now just to get rid of DirectDraw and we could have a Linux version port....

[Solver]

Tut, tut. I'm disappointed a little bit that there's still no word. I didn't expect the source to come out quickly, but I am getting concerned now.

Maybe they at Activision assigned the task to someone who learnt of that in a week, and has since then been on constant sick leave.

[Peter Triggs]

'Patience, Grasshopper' (as they say)

I came across this yesterday (on a site that's not allowed to be mentioned around here ):

When Activision was founded on October 1, 1979 by four veterans of the video and home entertainment industries, the company made history by becoming the first independent designer and marketer of home video game software. Irked by Atari's lack of respect and recognition given to their game designers and programmers, David Crane, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead and Larry Kaplan left Atari and formed Activision with the financial help of James Levy (who became President and CEO of the company). They were later joined by other talented designers such as Larry Kitchen, Carol Shaw, Steve Cartwright and Alan Miller.
Beginning in 1981, Activision released a barrage of first-rate VCS titles that captivated the gaming public and made people aware that Atari wasn't the only one that made games for the [Atari] 2600. Activision not only inspired other programmers and entrepreneurs to set up shop as independent publishers but they also forced Atari, at least temporarily, to improve on the quality of its own games.

Activision was quite possibly the most prolific third party videogame publisher in their time, churning out everything from top notch sports games, (Boxing, Skiing, Tennis, Ice Hockey) racers (Grand Prix, Decathlon, Enduro) and even arcade adaptations (Rampage, Kung Fu Master, Commando, Double Dragon). Their original PC games enjoyed less success than Atari 2600 classics such as River Raid and Little Computer People, but did attract a loyal following. Among the most underrated games Activision made for PC are Portal, Ghostbusters, and Alter Ego.

Activision was also innovative in other ways. They credited their designers by mentioning them on the manual of each of their games. (Lord British and Roberta Williams came later). Activision also offered patches to gamers who attained a certain score in their games as an added incentive.

Maybe all this badmouthing they've been getting around here is a bit over the top.

[Solver]

They only get badmouthed by CtP-haters here. Currently, I was just expressing disappointment that we don't know about the status of source .

[Peter Triggs]

Actually I agree with you about that. It would be nice to get some sort of official announcement from the company about what's going on.

And what I was thinking about is some of the guys who post here and really like the game, but have been knocking the company ever since they dropped support for it. That was a bad move but, IMHO, giving us the source code more than makes up for it.

[The Big Mc]

does it