systemshock VS copygen

For what it's worth, Nightdive did release the source code for the old Mac version and there's currently a cross-platform source port in development based on it: Shockolate.

if you want a source port that looks like the original (none of that KEX engine crap that looks awful), but also has mouse look, you can try shockolate (https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock). it's not 100% stable though and sometimes crashes. i could not figure out the reason in two full playthroughs, but it was good enough for me if i can avoid the disgusting KEX port.

Though the Ultima Underworld maps were made out of a 2D grid, the rendering was done using texture-mapped polygons - and not just that but they even used dithering for more light variations. While pretty much all objects were rendered as 2D sprites, there were a few 3D polygonal objects too.

Wolf3D has a much more limited renderer - only walls are rendered, no lighting (the shaded side for walls is actually different textures) and the viewport is fixed at the middle of the walls for example. On the other hand Wolf3D was much faster and responsive and had a larger render window than UU.

UU itself was not open sourced, however System Shock 1 which is based on the same engine was[0][1].

[0] https://github.com/NightDive-Studio/shockmac

[1] https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock

last example, system shock - got open sourced and ported by the community in no time https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock

I have a more modern source port that works on my Mac (Shockolate), but I still find it clunky to control. Funny how preferences and expectations change over time. I don't remember having an issue with the controls back then (or with Ultima Underworld), but now, it's just really hard for me to get past.

I don't know if you still care, but there's also Shockolate. It's meant to run on modern hardware.

The official KEX Enhanced Edition has had the most work put into it, but Shockolate might be an option if you want to give it a shot.

Copygen is a type-based code generator for the Go programming language. Copygen allows developers to generate type-to-type copy functions out-of-the-box without reflection (why?), but it can also be used to generate code. As an example, disgo is a performant, secure, and thread-safe Go Discord API Wrapper that uses Copygen with dasgo to achieve feature completion.

An alternative is to use a reflection based struct copier library or a codegen struct copier library

Disgo is the only Go API Wrapper using a maintainable approach to become feature complete. Disgo is the only Go API Wrapper to provide OAuth2 flows. Disgo is the only wrapper to define API definitions (objects, requests, commands) as structs, allowing for usage of the Discord Producer API without requiring knowledge of an additional API Wrapper Consumer API.

Copygen allows developers to define types, structs, and more in its setup.go file and has no issues copying them to the output; except for comments. The Go AST makes it "very difficult to update the AST and retain correct comment place (from 2017)" and is not likely to change any time soon. As a result, Copygen sometimes generates free-floating comments (i.e multi.go). Copygen's comments are handled in its Parser. Feel free to use any necessary libraries or rewriting of the comment-parsing mechanism to fix this issue.