Amiga.org

Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: samo79 on September 08, 2003, 11:47:44 PM

Title: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: samo79 on September 08, 2003, 11:47:44 PM
Here we can found a new petion for the release of source code of Daikatana, if this petition win it's possible in the future to see this game running on Amiga !

Sign it here (http://rome.ro/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000213) ...

Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: lempkee on September 09, 2003, 12:12:25 AM
yes please!!

very underated game many says,  ionstorm is the guys behind doom really .., afaik ... he left id software some years back and started iostorm (thanx kada for info)

cheers..
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: KennyR on September 09, 2003, 12:50:49 AM
:roll:

Eidos won't release the sources. Have you seen the sources of Tomb Raider yet?
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: T_Bone on September 09, 2003, 03:20:58 AM
ACK! Where do I sign for them NOT to port it!!!!
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: CodeSmith on September 09, 2003, 06:22:07 AM
I'd much rather they release the source to Thief or Thief 2...  Daikatana, for better or worse is just another FPS.  Thief is the one game I can't play at night with the lights off (those zombies are WAY creepy!)  :-o
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: Bezzen on September 09, 2003, 10:36:29 AM
"Daikatana looks and plays like a game well past its sell-by date - the Quake II engine it is based on shouldn't be exposed to such rigours at its age. (...) Daikatana simply doesn't cut it." - 4 out of 10 in Edge Issue 86 (three years ago).

At gamerankings.com it managed to get a score of 51% from an average of 49 reviews.

I really doubt that Daikatana is like a good wine and only gets better with age. So I wouldn't really like to see Romano's failure on an Amiga. We deserve better.
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: Crumb on September 09, 2003, 12:05:58 PM
Althought I think that the more games we have to choose, the better... I don't know anyone who liked that game. I guess I will be able to live without it :-D

There are games still unported like Hexen2 that I liked more...
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: KennyR on September 09, 2003, 08:58:58 PM
Some research on daikatana on the net has revealed that it's quite possibly one of the worst games ever. It's even on somethingawful.com.
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: iamaboringperson on September 10, 2003, 12:32:25 AM
Oh dear, not again... :roll:  I can play most of these games on my powerful AMD computer!!! :-D
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: CodeSmith on September 10, 2003, 05:31:42 AM
The idea is not to play some ancient game again, but rather to convince developers that there are no technical reasons why they can't write modern games.  For most people out there an amiga is an A500 with 1MB of RAM.  A port of Quake 3 is just a ludicrous idea.  However, if people can say "see, here's a port of and I can get 70FPS on my new Amiga", then someone will eventually release a new game and others will hopefully follow.
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: Crumb on September 10, 2003, 11:58:28 AM
@CodeSmith:
Yeah, that's a good reason... I see your point. anyway we have Quake2, which engine should be pretty similar.

It would be nice that Hyperion released a native original game :-) firstly for AmigaOS a game that used the G4s and Radeons to the max... to show what our new hardware can do... it may be ported to mac and linuxppc too, some time after... and erm... windows
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: L8-X on September 10, 2003, 11:17:34 PM
Couldn't you petition for a decent game like Unreal Tournament or something. :-D
Title: Re: Petition for source code of Daikatana game
Post by: lempkee on September 11, 2003, 03:12:52 PM
l8-X .. i agree....