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recently found this project.
https://github.com/turican0/remc2
And as big fan of the Magic Carpet games (and someone who does not understand,
why there hasn't been any attempts for another MC game or clone) I'm overly
excited from what that already advanced project promises.
As far as I get it, and how this source looks like, it is a similar approach
that the Devilution project took.
Yet, while they say it should build for Linux, I wasn't able to.
Because of some strange SDL dependencies in CMake.
Maybe someone else is keen to try this.
If it works or is interesting enough, it may be also worth an article on GoL.
I mean Magic Carpet is still a lot of fun to play today imho. :)
I can't help right now, but this does bring back fond memories.
I did manage to force compile it in 64-bit. But I get a segmentation fault when running remc2. When I run remc2unittest I get this output:
remc2]$ ./remc2unittests
[==========] Running 1 test from 1 test suite.
[----------] Global test environment set-up.
[----------] 1 test from StructuresSizeTest
[ RUN ] StructuresSizeTest.Engine
/home/user/remc2/remc2/UnitTests.cpp:6: Failure
Expected equality of these values:
224791
sizeof(type_D41A0_BYTESTR_0)
Which is: 245115
[ FAILED ] StructuresSizeTest.Engine (0 ms)
[----------] 1 test from StructuresSizeTest (0 ms total)
[----------] Global test environment tear-down
[==========] 1 test from 1 test suite ran. (0 ms total)
[ PASSED ] 0 tests.
[ FAILED ] 1 test, listed below:
[ FAILED ] StructuresSizeTest.Engine
1 FAILED TEST
Then again, I read something like "64bit will be available after rewriting all arrays to structures" on Github.
Will post build instructions when I have more time!
https://github.com/thobbsinteractive/magic-carpet-2-hd
I still ran into some problems. CMake does for some reason not find any libraries, I had to explicitly set the path with
CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu"Otherwise I followed the instructions in the README:
export BUILDTYPE=Debug # or Releasemkdir -p build/${BUILDTYPE}
cd build/${BUILDTYPE}
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILDTYPE} -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./inst [SOURCE_DIR]
make
make install
Caveats
I must admit that I have never played or even heard of these games before, but they must have been pretty damn impressive back in the day! Interestingly the README mentions that it had some sort of VR support (back in 1994?) and one of the goals of the fork is to add support for modern VR.
Magic Carpet 1 (not sure about 2) had build-in support for at least the VFX1 headset.
Apart from this decompilation effort, I wonder why nobody (capable - I'm not unfortunately) has
made an attempt to include OpenVR support into DOSbox that allows to use modern VR headset leveraging
the built-in VR support of classic DOS games (there are quite a few).
I tried the original project now, and it's got about the same problems/solutions to build (plus an undeclared boost dependency) and it's in much better shape than the fork!
Sound and music works (both midi and the new ogg tracks), proper upscaling of graphics and running at the correct speed without the need for strangle.
I only chrooted once (during the installation of my 64-bit OS).
debootstrap --arch i386 sid my_chroot_dir