Marathon For Gp32

[Sheng]

just wondering any chance of a Marathon port to the GP32... since it's open source just like Doom

 

[BaDToaD]

Don't hold your breath I mentioned this a year ago and no one picked up the challenge.

 

[K0K0NUT_h3lmut]

It makes sense to have it. It would be sooo cool. But it seems that all the devs are maxed out? On what? How many devs do we have?!?

 

[Yuglooc]

I think the most is to hype on GPX2 to think about anything new for the GP32, give it a while then maybe.

 

[tattooman]

I agree it would be cool, I loved playing in back in the day on MAC OS 7.0. Maybe in my next life I will take up coding...

 

[Quiest]

What is this?

A game?


If so, and I like it and think it`s possible, I may give it a try in Fenix!


EDIT: A 3D shooter? No way of porting that with Fenix
And I don`t think anyone else is going to port that...

 

[Sheng]

oh will... just have to wait until someone does... lol

Damn I want Duke Nukem 3d too... is that open source?

 

[Hooka]

Yes, duke3d is open source but you'd have to port it AND the build engine which it is based on and it's alot of work!

As for a port of AlephOne (marathon engine) there is source available but I'm thinking that this would also be a major project!

 

[trooper]

@ Hooka or anyone.

Is AlephOne a doom or quake type engine ?. Just curious.

Trooper

 

[madmac]

just wondering any chance of a Marathon port to the GP32... since it's open source just like Doom

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For better understanding:

Marathon is a triology of ego shooters of Mac os 7/8/9 made by the team (bungie) that made Halo for XBox later (there are halo demos 4 macs!) cause m$ bought them

Marathon worked flawlessly on 68k macs (25-66 Mhz) in 640x480 speed should not be the problem.

AlephOne is a OpenGL Port of the Marathon source. Brought the game to win and linux.

The source is in c++.

As far as I can see in the code the pics are rendered in 320x240 and blew up to 640x480 cause some 68k macs had a hardware zoom. (looks fine on gp32?)

Problem: GP32 lacks some controls->some features have to be brougt to a "in game menu" etc.
If there are some people (preferrably mac os 9 c++ programmer and arm assembler coders) out there who would like to port, i could help a little. Its too big for one!