freeciv VS CnC_Remastered_Collection

#4 - Free Civ - Its Civilization 1 and 2, a free clone. You can download the game here; OR play via the online web version... which is my favorite... has a great 2.5 iso view that adds depth.. or join a mega game where 300 or so human players play one turn per day.

Also, a similar question points to FreeCiv: http://www.freeciv.org/

Freeciv

I also played my fair share of FreeCiv, because my second favourite Amiga game was Civilization. ;-)

It's worth-trying if you're interested in seeing what the "4x" genre is about. Probably not Civ 2 on PSX, but you can get Civ: Revolution (Civ "dumbed down" for consoles) on the PS360 generation consoles, Civ: Revolution 2 on mobile (not a bad attempt but really should've stuck on console), Civ 6 on the Nintendo Switch, or FreeCiv on PC and/or mobile if you want a Civ2-experience that isn't stuck on the original Playstation (or hunting down an older DOS/Windows copy). Alternatively, if looking for a Civ5 experience and not on Steam but mobile: There is UnCiv which can be pretty decent for the price (free) and platform (mobile). It won't match Civ6, but it's near "current" based on Civ5.

It's a tough one to recommend for, that fanless system tends to overheat just being on, much less running anything, from all I've read. I'd probably stick with some basics like ADOM, FreeCiv, Battle for Wesnoth, etc. (all three are free by the way). Those games are non-system intensive so shouldn't put too much pressure on it to run them, and turn-based so you don't have to worry about lag. Looking for a bit more action, give the demo for Torchlight a go, see how the system handles it. Should be capable enough but with heat issues it could put a crimp in the play. Similar with Windows (Bedrock) edition Minecraft, give the free trial a go and see what's what. Fez, Bastion, Braid, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Beyond Good & Evil, Commandos 2+3, Deus Ex, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Empire Earth, Europa Universalis II, Fallout 1/2/Tactics, Fate, FlatOut 2, Gothic 2, Ground Control, Hearts of Iron, Hitman 3: Contracts, Homeworld (the classic version, comes with the remastered), IL-2 Sturmovik, Jagged Alliance 2, Machinarium, Majesty, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Mount & Blade, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Planescape: Torment, Praetorians, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Quake 1-3, Rayman 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Shadow Warrior Classic, Sid Meier’s Civilization III (or give Freeciv a go instead), Silent Storm, SimCity 4 Deluxe, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, Starcraft (original, it's the free one), System Shock 2, The Curse of Monkey Island, The Settlers IV, Theme Hospital, Thief, Thief 2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider II, should run on that.

Freeciv is well, free : https://www.freeciv.org

That's just a clone game though. And the originals were actually made open source with the release of the remaster.

Not most, but quite a few legendary ones were released in a "source available engine, paid maps" kind of way. Check out Id Software's github for a couple versions of DOOM, Quake and Wolfenstein. EA has released Command & Conquer's source code (here).

You could just look through the source code and see if you can spot anything though.

If anyone curious about some historic examples here is the pathfinding code from the C&C/Red Alert games

>The path algorithm works by following a LOS path to the target. If it collides with an impassable spot, it uses an Edge following routine to get around it. The edge follower moves along the edge in a clockwise or counter clockwise fashion until finding the destination spot. The destination is determined by Find_Path. It is the first passable that can be reached (so it will handle the doughnut case, where there is a passable in the center of an unreachable area).

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...

That being said bespoke development being done badly is the source of horror stories. It's like old games C++ being notoriously "horrible garbage hacks" and yet, code like this or this is very well documented and not bad.

What do you more than this? https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection

I merged the upstream branch of the source code into my mod branch, did a new build, moved teh required files into the mod folder and confirmed the mod worked locally.

The source is wrapped up in DLLs so it can run in their frontend, but all of the old game source is there: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection

As a specific example, the code for the Command & Conquer video games was released by Electronic Arts awhile back. Looking at some of the code for C&C: Red Alert (https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/tree/master/REDALERT), I was struck by how many comments were included. For example, this is a snippet from one of the source files (HOUSE.CPP):