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Re: Frontier: First Encounters

Subject: Re: Frontier: First Encounters
by rob on 2007/4/3 15:02:39

Yeah it sucks, but thats the nature of the beast. No source available so John Jordan disassembled the code, isolated the OS calls and built an API. He's also done a lot of bugfixes and other tweaks, which is quite impressive considering the difficulty of the code. I know he's tried at various times to rewrite parts in C, buts its extremely difficult as you'd expect. The hard part seems to be the mission engine; apparently its a complete VM with its own language.

I once dabbled in this code a bit, but my x86 assembly isn't so great :(