[OT] I ported Empire to D2 and made it cross platform.

[Bernard Helyer]

On Monday, 6 February 2012 at 04:33:56 UTC, Caligo wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Bernard Helyer 
> <b.helyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've tried multiple times to contact Walter through his 
>> websites, but
>> apparently _that's_ a dead end so...
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/DzrN6.png
>>
>> Look at it! The selection pulses! Empire's never looked so 
>> good!
>>
>> There are some rough edges; the save games fail to load, demo 
>> isn't working,
>> the text log isn't cleared correctly. But other than that you 
>> can happily
>> play a game right through. I can't put the code anywhere 
>> because
>> distribution is prohibited, so this is my last ditch effort to 
>> contact
>> Walter.
>>
>>
>> -Bernard.
>
> So I presume that you modified the source code slightly to make 
> it
> work?  Or is it a complete rewrite?

Yeah, it's a port of the D1 code with various things replaced as 
needed.