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Windows-only sigh How difficult would it be to port this? edit: it's not a snarky, rhetorical, question – I really want to play this

Torn 12y ago
So you'd have to port the Multimedia Fusion 1.5 (MMF) engine he used to make the game in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Fusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Fusion That thing is going to be closed source, ancient, and not actively maintained. 1.5 seems to have been released in 2001. Why don't you download a free MS VM from https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools#downloads https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools#downloads and then try it on there using something like VMWare or VirtualBox
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  Were later versions of MMF somehow not backwards-compatible?
  - Torn 12y ago
    No idea; a quick Google tells me there were some compatibility issues http://community.clickteam.com/threads/34059-MMF-1-5-to-MMF2-Compatibility-Bug http://community.clickteam.com/threads/34059-MMF-1-5-to-MMF2...
    - TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
      Heh. I work on Gang Garrison 2, a game still actively developed which is also reliant on a dead game creation tool (Game Maker 8.0), so this is sadly familiar.
      - enthdegree 12y ago
        Do you know what happened to the project to redo GG2 in Python?
        TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
        It got abandoned after a bit. Nobody is willing to do the work needed to "finish" it.
        Torn 12y ago
        Considered a ground-up rewrite using something like Unity? They have some kickass 2D tooling now, plus you get physics for free
        lmm 12y ago
        Unity is closed-source; I'll bet in ten years we'll see the same thing happening again, with people trying desperately to find some way to run these old games that were developed on the no-longer-supported Unity platform.
        Torn 12y ago
        Dunno, I'd say Unity has enough traction behind it to not suddenly disappear. It's a major contender now. Developers write their own code in unity (C# or JS) as well as bringing in their own assets (music, art, etc). So even if the unity engine disappears, authors will be able to release their work in a meaningful fashion.
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chc 12y ago
I would try it with Wine and see.
pantalaimon 12y ago
It works fine with wine.
- mas644 12y ago
  I can confirm this.
davidgerard 12y ago
Wine is always worth a try. If there are any problems, (1) make a reportable Wine bug (2) report it to the dev, who may be able to help.
izietto 12y ago
With Wine everything is fine

Torn 12y ago

So you'd have to port the Multimedia Fusion 1.5 (MMF) engine he used to make the game in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Fusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Fusion That thing is going to be closed source, ancient, and not actively maintained. 1.5 seems to have been released in 2001. Why don't you download a free MS VM from https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools#downloads https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools#downloads and then try it on there using something like VMWare or VirtualBox

TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
Were later versions of MMF somehow not backwards-compatible?
- Torn 12y ago
  No idea; a quick Google tells me there were some compatibility issues http://community.clickteam.com/threads/34059-MMF-1-5-to-MMF2-Compatibility-Bug http://community.clickteam.com/threads/34059-MMF-1-5-to-MMF2...
  - TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
    Heh. I work on Gang Garrison 2, a game still actively developed which is also reliant on a dead game creation tool (Game Maker 8.0), so this is sadly familiar.
    - enthdegree 12y ago
      Do you know what happened to the project to redo GG2 in Python?
      - TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
        It got abandoned after a bit. Nobody is willing to do the work needed to "finish" it.
        Torn 12y ago
        Considered a ground-up rewrite using something like Unity? They have some kickass 2D tooling now, plus you get physics for free
        lmm 12y ago
        Unity is closed-source; I'll bet in ten years we'll see the same thing happening again, with people trying desperately to find some way to run these old games that were developed on the no-longer-supported Unity platform.
        Torn 12y ago
        Dunno, I'd say Unity has enough traction behind it to not suddenly disappear. It's a major contender now. Developers write their own code in unity (C# or JS) as well as bringing in their own assets (music, art, etc). So even if the unity engine disappears, authors will be able to release their work in a meaningful fashion.
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chc 12y ago

I would try it with Wine and see.

pantalaimon 12y ago

It works fine with wine.

mas644 12y ago
I can confirm this.

davidgerard 12y ago

Wine is always worth a try. If there are any problems, (1) make a reportable Wine bug (2) report it to the dev, who may be able to help.

izietto 12y ago

With Wine everything is fine