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[M-HT]

Hi,

I finished porting my static recompilation of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans to Pandora.

Download it here:
Archive
Repo


Original DOS Warcraft version 1.21 is required for playing.

Edit (06.11.2011):
Warcraft was updated to version 1.1.0 with the following changes:
* MIDI playback using WildMIDI
  (old MIDI playback using SDL_mixer can be set in the configuration file)
* minor bug fixes
* show the Readme in the Documentation submenu

Edited by M-HT, 30 November 2011 - 10:14 AM.

[Dead1nside]

I saw this pop up on the repo, and it put another big smile on my face. I love that game. Wish WC2 would work, but I've heard mixed reports of it on DosBox. Thanks so much M-HT.

[mcobit]

Tested it. Works really nicely. Played through the first 3 missions. I especially love how it uses the whole screen. GREAT!

Edit: Only the shortkeys for move attack harvest and repair could be on one side of the keyboard to make them better reachable via thumb.

Edited by mcobit, 05 July 2011 - 06:58 PM.

[bagmouse7]

Yes!!!
Working great, and the full screen is super nice.

Thanks M-HT!

[Farox]

What a great port

Thank you so much for this.

[skeezix]

Can you 'just' port it to SDL say, and release it to the public?

Presumably its all new code in there (no binary blobs survived?), so Actiblizzard wouldnt' have any legal reason to come after it. (But they might anyway, citing T&C violations or some sillyness like that.)

I presume you've not done so, for fear of that possible backlash

jeff

[fusion_power]

I only have Warcraft 2 so a fresh new port of this game would be also nice. I've played The Wargus port onto the GP2X (without touchscreen ) but Wargus was realy bugy and not nearly as enjoyable as the original game. So the original WC2 would be a nice Game for the Pandora too.

[mcobit]

Where did you get the source from anyways? Or is this a complete rewrite?

[M-HT]

Can you 'just' port it to SDL say, and release it to the public?

I'm using SDL, but I'm not releasing it to the public (maybe sometime in the future).

I only have Warcraft 2 so a fresh new port of this game would be also nice. I've played The Wargus port onto the GP2X (without touchscreen ) but Wargus was realy bugy and not nearly as enjoyable as the original game. So the original WC2 would be a nice Game for the Pandora too.

I'm not planning to work on Warcraft 2.

Where did you get the source from anyways? Or is this a complete rewrite?

It's a static recompilation (or static binary translation - see Wikipedia).
Basically I generated ARM assembler code from the original executable. Then I added a lot of my code to make it work.
This was done originally for GP2X and now I ported it to Pandora.

Edited by M-HT, 07 July 2011 - 09:25 AM.

[Farox]

I remember Warcraft, Albion and XCOM on GP2X was great ports

I think we are very lucky to have you also on Pandora scene.

Thanks

Do you think there are other games portable with this way of compile ?

[mcobit]

So it is like a dynarec, just not on runtime, but precompiled into arm-asm? Thats awesome!

[fusion_power]

I'm not planning to work on Warcraft 2.

Hmm, ok. ^^
Is the sourcecode of C&C released actualy? Games can be freely and official downloaded.

[mcobit]

I'm not planning to work on Warcraft 2.

Hmm, ok. ^^
Is the sourcecode of C&C released actualy? Games can be freely and official downloaded.

No. No source for C&C else we won't be struggeling with the replicated buggy engines like freecnc and openredalert. Unfortunately, since the game is playable with dosbox on modern pcs, there is not much developement done to these...

[fusion_power]

I'm not planning to work on Warcraft 2.

Hmm, ok. ^^
Is the sourcecode of C&C released actualy? Games can be freely and official downloaded.

No. No source for C&C else we won't be struggeling with the replicated buggy engines like freecnc and openredalert. Unfortunately, since the game is playable with dosbox on modern pcs, there is not much developement done to these...

I guess, a native Port would be much much faster than the detour over Dosbox. ^^ Well, would be to good to be true if the Source of at least the first C&C games would be released. Could make things much more easy I guess.

Edited by fusion_power, 08 July 2011 - 03:32 PM.

[DoubléDash]

Absolutely incredible M-HT. This runs perfectly, far better than through DOSBOX. This is one of my all time favourites. Thanks does not even come close. Team Pandora PM this guy to do some other stuff !!