Sourcecode from Breathless released

[apex]

Who want to do a RTG port?
http://aminet.net/package/game/shoot...ss-1996-Source

[Gzegzolka]

I wonder if it would be posible to add gun sprite or walls with different degrees not only 90°.

[apex]

Interest for this source seems not so high?

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by apex

Interest for this source seems not so high?

Agreed. Even if it were, derived works would fall under the same freeware license as the original source code.

[saimon69]

I did stumble on this yesterday in my facebook feed; would love to see it used to create a wave of mods and spin-offs - from NittaMitutaki like he did with gloom engine - and from others

Article on GenerationAmiga.com

The source code archive on Aminet

[LongLifeA1200]

Wow, someone finally found it. I was wondering when it would show up.

Was starting to think it was an urban legend (or mistranslation of Italian).

[apex]

The source?

[Locutus]

Even if someone would be interested in this, do you expect someone to get to grips with a 22k line assembler codebase with all comments and doclines in Italian in less then a week?

[LongLifeA1200]

Originally Posted by apex

The source?

Yes, apparently it was only available on an Italian CD called Amy Resource Volume 6 for the longest time. Website can still be visited today http://www.amyresource.it/ (almost couldn't find it because most people were misspelling it 'amiresource' whenever it was mentioned.)

When I translated the website's text about Breathless it read: "level and source editor" so I started thinking that maybe they just meant level editor and that's why the source code was so hard to find. Glad it turned out to be true after all.

[Gzegzolka]

I would love to play some custom maps and see new features. I wonder how much complicated can levels be in this game.

[saimon69]

I know there are several italians here - me included - that could help with comments translation; maybe someone can github it?

[Locutus]

Originally Posted by Gzegzolka

I would love to play some custom maps and see new features. I wonder how much complicated can levels be in this game.

The map editor is included, with binaries. I haven't tried running it but you could give it a try :-)

[nagares]

In TMap.asm this has to include:

include 'system'
; include 'Picasso/Picasso'
include 'TMap.i'

include 'misc/easystart.i'

But 'system' and 'easystart.i' are not there.

Any Ideas?

Thank you.

[alexh]

Interesting the source code was first published 20 years ago. November 1997

[HardStep]

Originally Posted by Gzegzolka

I wonder if it would be posible to add gun sprite or walls with different degrees not only 90°.

Was I super drunk back in a day (~1996) or, but didn't one of the Breathless demos have gun sprite showing up on the screen while you were shooting?

Crap, 50:50

[Locutus]

Originally Posted by nagares

In TMap.asm this has to include:

include 'system'
; include 'Picasso/Picasso'
include 'TMap.i'

include 'misc/easystart.i'

But 'system' and 'easystart.i' are not there.

Any Ideas?

Thank you.

I think both of those files are includes provided by DevPac, probably some startup boilerplate code and generic OS bindings.

[nagares]

Yes, you are right!

[eXeler0]

Ok, so its now about a year ago since the source code for Breathless was uploaded to Aminet.
Does anyone know if there were ever any attempts to mod it or do something with the source? (RTG, Adding weapons sprites / models etc..) Googling it didn't help alot.

[phx]

I wouldn't hold my breath for it - SCNR

[eXeler0]

Originally Posted by phx

I wouldn't hold my breath for it - SCNR

Anyhoo, I'm sure there is *some* reason for why there are no player weapons visible, but I'm also confident it can be fixed, because it.. well.. sucks... If someone does the coding, I will do the necessary graphics.