Tower of Babel Forum

ldesnogu · Lizard Messages: 13

Well, it's mostly ready to be released...

Yeah, no kidding, but don't expect too much: it's just the Atari ST version with a dedicated emulator based on Hatari.

The last thing I want to do is to remove the need to have a TOS image and then I will release the beast

That way we will have a free open-source version of the game (hum, execept that ToB itself is perhaps not really free...).

Fawlty · Mason Messages: 280 Location: Gütersloh

Hi Laurent,

that sounds very interesting. But what exactly do you mean by "open source"? Disassembled machine code?!?

ldesnogu · Lizard Messages: 13

Zitat: Fawlty

that sounds very interesting. But what exactly do you mean by "open source"? Disassembled machine code?!? ;)

That just means the emulator part will be open source for sure.

Regarding the game itself, as I already wrote, I have disassembled the game and put some comments. I will check everything assembles to the same image (it used to, so it should be OK). Then I will make the emulator load that image.

And that version uses SDL as library so it will be portable: it already runs on my WinXP machine and on a Solaris SPARC workstation

ldesnogu · Lizard Messages: 13

I have a first version of the emulator without TOS.
Does someone want to test it? If so send me an e-mail and I will send the archive back to you

Next step are code source cleaning, further removal of unused stuff and preparation for full source code release including the "source" of ToB and a 68K assembler to recompile it.