Can you still save and reload until the Death Hand actually hits something useful?
Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
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Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#62I'm sure this site will be taken offline for copyright infringement almost immediately, but it really is a decent recreation of the original. It's also historically significant: Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre what Wolfenstein 3D is to the first-person-shooter: not necessary the very first example ever, but the first to achieve notable popularity, and the progenitor of most of the following examples.
No copyright issues; it's based off of OpenDUNE: http://www.opendune.org/
As far as I can tell from their wiki, OpenDUNE was created by disassembling the original game and recoding the assembly in C. I wouldn't say the copyright issue is clear-cut, here.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was always partial to Red Alert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-gI_pFog0
Rapidly heading off on a tangent, but there was an AMA by the creator of the RA soundtrack on Reddit[1] quite recently. I had no idea Hell March was that well-known (and I finally found out what the correct lyric[s] was!) [1] http://www.reddit.com/comments/11n1xk/c6o41e1/
Except they're not the real lyrics. For some reason, even the composer believe is German, when is an Spanish commander guiding his troops in a march.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
By "long time" you mean "as long as large copyright holders lobby to keep extending the window" which could mean "never" in practice.
Why don't we just settle on "so long as to make expiry irrelevant for video games".
I don't know what you're complaining about. Pong will be public domain in 2092.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
No copyright issues; it's based off of OpenDUNE: http://www.opendune.org/
The source-code is probably based off OpenDUNE but I'm pretty sure the art isn't. They'll be taken down for the art for sure ...
Yep, looks like they just recreated the game engine. You still need a copy of the original Dune 2 data files to play the game.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
This took a moment to sink in but that's quite exactly how I played it (and Dune 2000) back in the day. Way before I even knew Tower Defense games :-)
Ah, I miss those long windy trails of concrete and rocket turrets built right at their base :) Also the first game I learned to 'hack', and it's what set me on the path to learning programming: I discovered a hex file editor on a floppy and had a hunch about how things might fit together. So I saved a game, waited a second until some money was spent in the game and then saved again into a different slot. Thereafter I…
Yea I remember that! Was it a utility or something off a bbs? I remember a hex editor!
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#67For anyone interested in playing Dune II natively I highly recommend Dune Legacy[0] - an open source implementation which I personally found much better than OpenDUNE, which the link is based on. [0] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/dunelegacy/index.php?t...
Nice!
It fixes most annoyances of the original Dune II, e.g. you can use your right mouse button to order units to move somewhere, and there is finally a production queue.