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This should allow the game to run much better on more modern Mac computers. Gone is WineSkin 2.8.2 and Wine 2.12, and in its place is WineSkin 2.9.0.2 and Wine 4.11. The MacOS version of the game has been completely redone.

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The update fixes a few in-game issues as well as restoring a previously unheard e-mail from SHODAN.

Played just like the PSX release (during my playthrough I went back and forth between EX and the original on my PSP). In Powerslave EX, nothing really seemed to be off with the AI, which is a pretty significant feat all things considered. AI and Rendering are the two most difficult parts to even make remote sense of).

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Reverse-engineered code isn't usually spot-on on the first time when it comes to game logic, some guessing may be necessary until you decipher the assembly (I speak from personal experience here, during my attempts to reverse-engineer Terminal Velocity before I got the sources. Had the AI not been right on release, through bug reports and taking more time to understand the disassembly, I imagine it would have been taken care of in a patch, just like how people reported a very, very small inconsistency in Powerslave EX's gravity. The end product has been spot-on, thanks to him getting the source. There were things that were missed, and things thought to be correct that weren't quite. I remember the early days of Strife support in Vavoom and ZDoom, everything was quite significantly off for some time despite the amount of effort that went into it. Ever thought he may have just drawn the wrong conclusions about the AI with the disassembly, and noticed just how much it was off when he got the official code? That kind of shit happens in the world of reverse engineering games. Nowhere in that conversation do I see him saying that he does everything by eye. You're really pushing the Ship of Theseus problem.

'Remastered' my ass.Īs it stands, Turok EX is still (partial?) game logic transplanted on a custom engine. If the AI is not the same, it is not the same game. I know he actually did reverse engineering on Strife and Doom 64, but I have no evidence to suggest he did on Powerslave EX, Turok EX, or that he is doing it for Blood EX.ĭec 17 17:35:52 Kaiser: does the Turok rerelease use Kex?ĭec 17 17:36:09 no access to the original source code?ĭec 17 17:38:35 at the last minute I didĭec 17 17:38:53 otherwise the AI logic would of been way off I agree completely with shipping the stuff in a zip, but that's not what I was talking about, nor do I care.

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I only meant that he figures out how to rip the levels, art, sounds, etc. Maybe 'unpack' was a poor word choice where I could have used 'reverse engineer', but I usually associate that term with code, not data.

(Such as the gravity, and a few rendering bugs found in some of the later levels). Powerslave EX is much the same way in most cases, and before he got C&D'd, he was well on the way to fixing any inconsistencies people have found. Take Doom 64 EX for example, he was able to get the game performing 100% like the original, right down to Demo compatibility, quirks in the Macro system, and other assorted bugs, and all that was done without source code. If Turok EX ever goes free someday, he'll likely provide conversion utilities much akin to Doom 64 EX (which converts the Doom 64 ROM into a usable Doom WAD file).ĭoom 64 EX and Strife: Veteran Edition are using their native formats, since the support just came naturally thanks to being based on Doom3D and Chocolate Strife respectively, which are open source, and WADs have no shortage of tools that can manipulate them, therefore being easy a fuck to mod.Īs for programming by sight, not everything. If a port is commercial and on a digital platform, there's no real necessity for it to support files from old CD retail copies. KPF as the extension), for ease of support and ease of making mods.

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Yes, the assets are repacked as a ZIP (With.

Kaiser unpacks the game assets and reprograms the rest by sight.