Lord Brazen was even able to improve it without knowledge of the sourcecode.
If you have ideas like battle time etc.....just mention them under suggestions in this forum. Then he has more feedback where he should focus on.
Re-mastering MOO2 for Win
What is the downside to just running Dosbox and 1.40 under OSX now?If you succed at reverse-engineering viable source code, could you please compile for Mac OS X and maybe even get TCP/IP to replace IPX?
(carbon/aqua or fink/X/darwin or libwine or linux/ppc or whatnot, you know that better than me)
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I beleive it is an issue with the speed of DOSbox on OSX. From what I gathered, others had to configure the CPU emulation on simple because the OSX version of DOSbox does not support dynamic. With simple CPU emulation configured in DOSbox, even on a PC, it performs poorly. It may be playable on a very fast MAC if DOSbox is configured just right.What is the downside to just running Dosbox and 1.40 under OSX now?
"Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the Infinite shine through." - Confucius.
Yes, on my system the problem is speed without dynamic emulation, which is only available on x86 ("common PC") architecture.
However, orion2 does play (single player) at reasonable speed inside Q/qemu, and qemu even as an option to connect to qemu on other people's computers. Maybe it would be a lot easier to make qemu and dosbox interconnectible than to port orion, DOS, IPX and all those little necessary things to PowerPC.
But if you do re-engineer it, would you please add hotkeys for common tasks, like accessing the build list from the colony screen (the one where you would enter alt-crunch) or the diplomacy dialogs? Or let you type the first few letters of "automated factore" instead of running mouse miles on the build list screen.
Also, I would love a quick way to assign really long template build lists to planets. Once I get planetary construction and play for score, I usually have to click-edit 4 or 5 consecutive build lists individually for each of ~100 identical planets that are going to build the same stuff.
However, orion2 does play (single player) at reasonable speed inside Q/qemu, and qemu even as an option to connect to qemu on other people's computers. Maybe it would be a lot easier to make qemu and dosbox interconnectible than to port orion, DOS, IPX and all those little necessary things to PowerPC.
But if you do re-engineer it, would you please add hotkeys for common tasks, like accessing the build list from the colony screen (the one where you would enter alt-crunch) or the diplomacy dialogs? Or let you type the first few letters of "automated factore" instead of running mouse miles on the build list screen.
Also, I would love a quick way to assign really long template build lists to planets. Once I get planetary construction and play for score, I usually have to click-edit 4 or 5 consecutive build lists individually for each of ~100 identical planets that are going to build the same stuff.
Re: Re-mastering MOO2 for Win
old urls:
code.google.com/archive/p/moo2x
and code.google.com/archive/p/moo2x2
new:
https://github.com/pavelc7/moo2x
Now orion95.exe can use TCP/IP
For further modifications
you need install MSVS2010
IDAPro
DirectX SDK with DirectPlay
dxsdk_aug2007.exe DXSDK_Jun10.exe
Goals:
800x600 for map
increase limits for maps, 500 ships, 72 stars
avoid old directplay
code.google.com/archive/p/moo2x
and code.google.com/archive/p/moo2x2
new:
https://github.com/pavelc7/moo2x
Now orion95.exe can use TCP/IP
For further modifications
you need install MSVS2010
IDAPro
DirectX SDK with DirectPlay
dxsdk_aug2007.exe DXSDK_Jun10.exe
Goals:
800x600 for map
increase limits for maps, 500 ships, 72 stars
avoid old directplay
Re: Re-mastering MOO2 for Win
Hi!
Are you the author of one of the original two projects?
Can you provide built executables/dlls? I'd love to test TCP/IP.
Are you the author of one of the original two projects?
Can you provide built executables/dlls? I'd love to test TCP/IP.
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