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Beyond Castle Wolfenstein Re-Compiled

Posted by simoniker on from the back-to-the-classics dept.

hypethetica writes "In memory of game developer Silas Warner, a fan-based port of the original PC boot-diskette version of the 1985 classic, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, has been disassembled, CPU speed fixed, and Soundblaster support has been added. The new game executable, blessed by Silas' widow, runs in DOS, Windows, and DOSBox emulators. Both the executables and source code (x86 assembly) are available for download."

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  1. Awesome by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I wish more older game companies would release newly compiled versions of their games, or at least make them open source so that fans can go ahead and do it themselves. And it doesn't have to be a free for-the-fans type move, in a lot of cases I am more than willing to pay for a version of an older game that could run on my current machine.

    John Carmack mentioned something in his GDC talk about how he would consider letting outside companies remake the older id games with the DOOM3 engine and sell them at a discount price. This would send me running to the stores the second they are released.

  2. This is a very different game than Wolf3D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Don't confuse this with the iD/Apogee shareware game.

    It's more like Metal Gear Solid, but 2D. Not a shoot-em-up bloodfest, more of a stealth/strategy game.

    I remember the Commodore guys calling the PC Wolf3D a 'stupid action game'

    LOL

    cczz

  3. Is this legal by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Considering that they disassembled a copyrighted piece of software, can they get sued under the DMCA?

    In fact can people get sued for even the simple possesion of a disassembler?

    --
    May the Maths Be with you!
  4. Yet another Silas Warner classic by Teddy+Beartuzzi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Robot War

    I can't count the hours I spent tweaking, compiling, and testing robots. Great fun.

    Even wrote myself a disassembler, to see how other robots worked.

  5. Wolfenstein is the first game I remember modded by Creepy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember getting a mod of Castle Wolfenstein called Castle Smurfenstein, complete with audio encoded smurf song and a bloodcurdling scream.

    Not too long later I got the mod to dino eggs called Dino Smurfs. Oddly enough, I'd purchased both games retail (a rarity back then).

    Interesting... I googled on it and find out today the series came out in reverse order, or at least was meant to come out in a different order - look here for Dead Smurf Software info. Apparently Tom Hall of Id thought it was the first mod too (actually the first total conversion). It seems an appropriate next step to some of the stuff that was happening at the time (I had friends that created a popular Ultima editor, and we were huge WizEdit fans [and later the better Wizardry Scenario Editor] for Wizardry).