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Rise of the Triad Source Code Released

Posted by michael on from the rott-13 dept.

Woody writes "3DRealms gave us an early Christmas present this year: they've released the complete Rise of the Triad source code in memory of William Scarboro, one of the game programmers who died earlier this year. The source is being released under the GPL, so everyone should be happy. If you ever played ROTT, you might remember that under all of the silliness and gore there was an incredible deathmatch and capture-the-flag element. Discussions are currently starting in the 3DRealms forums. Thanks, 3DRealms!"

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  1. Awesome! by RealBeanDip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ROTT is a damn good game. Awful nice of 'em to let this loose.

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  2. Re:Being Jon Edwards by bethenco · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Somehow, I have a feeling William Scarboro would be happier with a $1 donation for the source code to his family than a free giveaway of one of his greatest works.
    You really think so? That doesn't make any sense to me. I've been programming for fun almost all my life and for money for a while now. I would like nothing more than to see source code I've written but was unable to release released under the GPL.

    It sounds like you seem to think that releasing source code is somehow a loss for the person who wrote it. Pretty much all the programmers I know would be delighted to see their code (written for an employer) released.
  3. Re:Good times.... by StillAnonymous · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, I got it too, although I noticed it with Duke3D as well. I guess it was any game with the build engine that made me motion sick. But not as badly as Dark Forces did. I couldn't play that game for more than 20 minutes without feeling sick to my stomach.

    Anyone know what causes this with some games for some people? Is the frame rate too high/low or something?

  4. No it isn't. It was a sequel to Wolf3D by AnonymousCowheard · · Score: 2, Interesting


    It was originally an ID software approved sequel...Wolfenstein: Rise of the Triad. The ROTT project was beyond 50% complete when ID Software called them later and decided to cancel. ROTT was originally planned to be a game based after the death of hitler; so yes, all that fun gameplay they decided to morph it into was originally supposed to be part of a fight against the Nazi army. That sounds kind of scarry to think about it...who knows, maybe Barney the Dinosaur was part of somthing more sinister...and we all know there was somthing extremly wrong with Pee Wee Herman's show.

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  5. Re:Wonderful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yeah your fucking right as we can fucking see that you are fucking pretty fucking much a fucking good fucking guy. why no fucking person can fucking see any fucking thing otherwise.

    I am so fucking impressed at your fucking command if the fucking english fucking language that you can fucking speak like a fucking president of some fucking corperation.... are you a fucking priest or a fucking genius? because your fucking language skills are fucking amazing!

    Fucking idiot...

  6. Re:What language is it written in? by Kashif+Shaikh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm actually interested in porting this too Gameboy Advance. From my early inspection with gbadv, it has planar video memory layout, similar to the PCs vga planer memory modes(mode2? can't remember now...)