Source released to the original System Shock
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GitHub - NightDive-Studio/shockmac: System Shock (PowerMac version / Official GPL Release)
System Shock (PowerMac version / Official GPL Release) - NightDive-Studio/shockmac
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Was looking at this thread from hackernews while doing support today for the first time at work (we all have to do on call support).
Nightdive studios are basically porting a lot of forgotten by rather decent games to modern hardware with some nice upgrades and releasing the source if they can.
They are good guys in the gaming industry IMHO.
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@lucas1 said in Source released to the original System Shock:
They are good guys in the gaming industry IMHO.
They're only releasing this after they took $1,300,000 of Kickstarter money and delivered jack shit.
So no.
No they are not. At least not in this case.
(I am fond of what they do for other titles, but they fucked up on System Shock bad. Bad.)
That aside, it's interesting to me that they were apparently working off the PowerPC Macintosh code, written in CodeWarrior IDE. ... man that takes me back! Makes me wonder if the original DOS code is missing entirely or if the PPC code was just easier to work with in some way. (Although it's hard to imagine how, since finding old copies of CodeWarrior is a bitch. If people are lucky the MPW compiler will work on it.)
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@blakeyrat said in Source released to the original System Shock:
They're only releasing this after they took $1,300,000 of Kickstarter money and delivered jack shit.
So no.
That article gave up too quickly:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock/posts/2135868?ref=backer_project_update
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@masonwheeler They probably only restarted development because their statement that the project failed because it was "too successful" pissed people off to torch and pitchforks level.
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@blakeyrat They could have released nothing.
They fucked up, said so and did the best they could to rectify.
There are loads of kick starters that are far worse and were trying to rip people off from the start. These aren't these people.
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@lucas1 They spent the kickstarter money making something entirely different from the kickstarter description. Then fucked that up and ended up with nothing.
Sorry, you're too apologetic.
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@blakeyrat Not really. They explained everything and it was a screw up rather than something insidious.
I am more willing to forgive. It seems while I am an atheist, I am quite a Christian. Maybe I should read the good book again.
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@lucas1 said in Source released to the original System Shock:
Maybe I should read the good book again.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
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Briefly wanted to browse the source a bit.
Old-style MacOS line endings everywhere. (Fortunately viewing the raw still works.)
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@timebandit I read it, It was a bit meh. I read the sequel as well .. a bit meh.
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@masonwheeler said in Source released to the original System Shock:
That article gave up too quickly:
How so? It seems like that pooch has been more than adequately screwed.
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Seems like a happy turn for the project.
Had they said they were planning to do this in the "going on hiatus" update, their "one step forward is two steps back" comment would even make sense instead of adding insult to injury!
