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Modding DEFCON for Christmas: Gifts, Not Nukes

Posted by timothy on from the send-some-gift-auf-deutsch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some coders modified Introversion's DEFCON, the game of nuclear war, by replacing the audio and visual components and some code to make a Christmas mod where you deliver presents instead of nukes to children (Bombers become sleighs, Fighters become reindeer, SAMs become Snowmen, etc). Their site explains the x86 assembly hackery and artistic components of their holiday hack."

18 comments

  1. This has been out for years! by trdrstv · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all one big missunderstanding. The US was on a HUMANITARIAN mission in Iraq... someone didn't realize it was only a mod....

  2. It's Christmas at Ground Zero by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if the DEFCON mod works okay,
    not a single line in the original song
    needs a byte of change today.

  3. How the movie should have been by waTR · · Score: 0

    I guess the next logical step is for someone to put this mod into "War Games" and have a christmas special. Have to re-dub the actors though... "oh god! Stop the count-down, christmas must not come early this year!"

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  4. Re:Sorry to be a bit of a bore here... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    Only the Slashdot Grinch would dare ask that question!

  5. A bit late... by vG_NeSS_Vg · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know this is better than average for Slashdot, but still, This mod for DEFCON came out more than a month ago (November 9) Here's the original thread that it debuted in: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon/viewtopic. php?t=3355

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  6. Too bad it reboots my MacBook Pro... by ChrisKnight · · Score: 1

    Some friends of mine just got hooked on DEFCON, and I downloaded and installed it into the Boot Camp partition on my second generation MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo). If I boot into Windows XP can play about three missions into the training set, or just barely connect to a multi-player game, before audio starts looping and my laptop reboots.

    Looks like a cool game. Wish I could play it.

    -Chris

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    1. Re:Too bad it reboots my MacBook Pro... by vertinox · · Score: 1

      Are you using the "Steam" version or the version off the website? (people have issues with Steam from my understanding)

      And you have upgraded to latest 1.2?

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    2. Re:Too bad it reboots my MacBook Pro... by ChrisKnight · · Score: 1

      I am running the regular version, not Steam, upgraded to 1.2.

      -Chris

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    3. Re:Too bad it reboots my MacBook Pro... by 644bd346996 · · Score: 1

      DEFCON works in CrossOver Mac.

    4. Re:Too bad it reboots my MacBook Pro... by ChrisKnight · · Score: 1

      I will try that. I own CrossOver Mac, but have been having spotty luck getting things to run. SecureCRT works great. SecureFX works, but throws an error when I exit. Visual SlickEdit blows chunks.

      I hadn't considered running a heavy graphics game under it.

      -Chris

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    5. Re:Too bad it reboots my MacBook Pro... by ChrisKnight · · Score: 1

      Odd. I just upgraded my registered copy of CrossOver Mac to 6.0RC1 and when I tried to run the DEFCON installer CrossOver Mac 'quit unexpectedly'.

      DEFCON is nuking me at every turn. :)

      -Chris

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    6. Re:Too bad it reboots my MacBook Pro... by vertinox · · Score: 1

      Hrm... Got me.

      The only other thing I would try because either reformatting Winxp would be to check firewall setup, turn off Windows Defender, and various other programs laying around.

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  7. Of course it is! by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 1

    You've got indie game development, WarGames references, game modding including ASM code on the linked webpage. How geek does it need to be?

    Contrast that to some of the other posts today: Review of the graphics on a demo of Gran Turismo HD. GNUStep gets a new chief maintainer. Yet another speculative article about an Apple iPhone.

    While this article may not matter in the larger sense, it beats 90% of the other slashdot articles hands-down for nerd relevance.

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  8. We're working on it by Captain+Tripps · · Score: 3, Informative

    See our progress log for more info on the Mac port. If I'm lucky, I might be able get the cross-platform multiplayer working this week, which is what's holding up the (private) beta release.

    I'm kind of surprised it doesn't work in Bootcamp.

    1. Re:We're working on it by ChrisKnight · · Score: 1

      A port to OS X would be awesome. But then, so would knowing why it caused my MacBook Pro to reboot would be nice too. :)

      -Chris

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  9. Buggy audio driver maybe? by Captain+Tripps · · Score: 1

    Defcon does use hardware-accelerated audio. But you'd need to take that up with Introversion; my only involvement is with the Mac port.

  10. Half-Modded Gameplay by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1

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