viewtouch VS CnC_Remastered_Collection

Created a long time ago by a really cool Redditor: https://www.viewtouch.com/

I am a software development manager. I have purchased and awarded every software developer whom I didn't fire after a week or two with a complete set of the books authored and typeset by W. Richard Stevens. My code, GPL'd nearly ten years ago, represents my life's work and is replete with the code found in Rich Stevens' books. I am very proud that I was able to help the programmers I hired to be better programmers and to help them write better code because they were able to rely upon what Rich Stevens was able to pass on to them.

And why are they not running [Point of Sale on Raspberry Pi](https://www.viewtouch.com) ?

Chipsee makes an [all in one 15.6 display](http://www.viewtouch.com/) which will do this much more easily, much more attractively and at less cost than this.

Per his website it would appear he did, as "ViewTouch provides 24/7 phone support and training, updates and backup." So, you know, good, but why not just mention "Yeah I'm doing this through my company that does in fact provide support" rather than "I've been doing this for 35 years"? What am I meant to take from that other than "My software doesn't go down" which sends the message that he's not planning for failure. The worst part of this, then, is that that's not actually the case and this was an opportunity for him to advertise his business rather than just dribbling his highly-experienced balls in the guy's mouth.

I didn't realize the code was GPL but just found it at https://github.com/ViewTouch/viewtouch, which has lots of information. Awesome!

The source code is available via https://github.com/ViewTouch/viewtouch

ViewTouch point of sale offers the use of the software at no cost but does charge $49 a month for 24/7 support.

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):