Past, present and future
Hello all,
I must say that stumbling on this thread and reading it made me rethink about the good-old-times. The surprising bit is that what I miss most is the fun we had writing EVERYTHING from scratch. We wrote drivers for sound cards, music and audio recordings. Graphics routines, and real-time (in the 386 era) data compression / decompression modules. Accompanying that were numerous editors; Starting from simple font editors for the correct font for the level names, through background - running graphic capture software (in x86 DOS…), to music and level editors (yes, we had a level editor). Even for the installation software we were crazy enough to write a text based – windows utility and use that as a base for the 5 and something windows needed there.
In today’s world and business… this would make you waste precious time to market and cause a horrible waste of working hours. To put it in other words, this was too great big fun to be commercial. Most good things aren’t.
So here’s the thing. Is there still a point for releasing an update or upgrade to this game? Some type of a level editor? Something else?
I’m going to take a short survey, you can submit your comments to “avishyesno@yahoo.com”. Not promising anything, just trying to see what’s what.
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