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Neat.

Super neat

that's real neato

So does this mean we can get an updated and remixed DIABLO?

and how similar codewise is Diablo 2's code to Diablo 1's?

>>15041611

He already said in his readme that D2 has 4x the code of D1 (or something to that effect) so no. He's working on making sure it runs well on modern PCs and such, basically like developing OpenMW but for Diablo.

anyone got a link for Diablo patched to 1.09(b)?

that one agdg anon might find this useful

>>15041611

Probably not that much. Just look up some gameplay videos and compare. Diablo 1 relies on dithering to render everything in 256 colors, whereas 2 has a perspective feature and more modern graphic capabilities built in for example.

>>15041681

No. Its not an automatic download and you need a orginal Diablo copy for the assets anyway.

>>15041589

The really sad part is that he's a reddit cuckold that refuses to do the same for Diablo 2 because Blizzard still "supports" it.

>>15041589

so whats diablo like? kind of soul like?

>>15041655

What did the Redditor get out of that again?

>>15041776

When will plebbitors learn: Blizzard doesn't give a shit about you or what you want. If one of the most infamous assholes of the industry gives out his old games for free when they outlived their shelf life on principle and Rockstar games and EA have done it once with their outdated 90s games but Blizzard doesn't, it means something. Its not like Blizzard is a spotless lamb when it comes to copyright.

>>15041792

Lurk more. If you ask such a question about a famous game, you are frankly a fucking imbecile.

>>15041813

he got a good goy package with gaymer shit in it from blizzard

>>15041814

why reply to obvious bait?

>>15041589

>>15041655

>>15041663

>>15041800

>>15041813

>>15041819

>we could have had an OS Starcraft clone

Also, WoW is free until the 24th. You're welcome.

>>15041819

WEW

Has anyone made a 'my son' meme out of it

>>15041813

He got a trip to Blizzcon all expenses and some gaymur merchandise shit.

>>15041802

There is much more to the graphics then one effect that is that wasn't that impressive. What I wanted to point out with this is that the claims about 4 times more code relative to a game that still used fucking dithering do add up.

>>15041847

The good goy's prize is to be advertized to for free.

>>15041855

>>15041858

Just another layer in the great onion of idiocy. Its like all that plastic in the ocean that is just now saturating our food chain, better get used to it.

>>15041855

>>15041858

No its not. This is also why I made that reply. You can't know if you are dealing with a real newfag or a shitposter anymore. Better err on the side of caution and make idiots not feel welcome here.

>>15041858

If we had lived a couple of centuries ago, I would have assumed you were joking.

>>15041739

>you need a orginal Diablo copy for the assets anyway.

that is why im asking for, anon.

Fielplanet has the patch. I think you can help your self with this information snippet alone.

>>15041800

We already have it.

https://github.com/Wargus/stargus

>>15041800

Honestly, forget Starcraft. Total Annihilation RE when. Spring doesn't count.

>>15041776

That's probably just an excuse so he doesn't have to say doing what he did for another game is a lot of work that he doesn't want to bother with. What he did here is amazing and I don't think you realize that. You cuckchan fags need to stop slapping your reddit meme on everything you don't like.

Wow this is pure theft of Blizzard™'s property and I will be reporting this filth to the good folks at Blizzard™. I hope I get free Blizzard™ games like Overwatch™!

I remember Diablo being an ass to run last time I tried it so I'm all for it. What's Diablo's modding scene like though? I always assumed it had a Doom-tier scene but I never actually looked it up.

https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution/blob/master/Source/gendung.cpp#L346

This is literally just shitty decompiled code. Nothing has been reconstructed.

>>15044070

What, did you think he was coding it from scratch?

>>15044070

It's easier to produce something useful from a decompiler with an older game since the older compilers were much more simplistic in their code generation. Unfortunately this isn't like the creation of Chocolate Strife where they could actually compare it to the other Doom-based games.

>>15041589

Great. Now let's see this done for Starcraft so that dipshit who gave them the source code back can eat a giant turd.

>>15041589

> Wow, does this mean I can download and play Diablo for free now?

> No, you'll need access to the data from the original game.

This guy is definitely a full on copyright cuck.

>>15044119

FOSS is kept FOSS because of copyright, and not distributing data files is standard MO for any FOSS source port or rewrite.

i am retarded, need help.

How do i compile diablo.dsw to build the exe?

>>15041589

>waste half a year of working 8 hours a day in his pare time, unpaid to reconstruct a meme dungeon crawler

I smell suicide within 5 years.

Wasn't here Diablo II open-source/reverse-engineering in progress done by different guy, as well?

Also,

>>15041607

>>15041664

>>15041816

There's too many skeletons in this thread.

Inb4 Dark Souls but made in Diablo Engine.

>>15044152

What?

>>15044153

The dev of swat elite force is working on one

>>15044158

The guy wasted 150 days of his own free time working 8 hours a day to reconstruct a crappy game. He'll kill himself within 5 years, I am pretty sure.

>>15044152

Diablo 1 is the best diablo game by far you know.

hello?

anyone here who can help?

OP is just the git copied to a zip, it is not compiled, there is no exe.

I am a retard who can't do stuff like this.

>>15044173

Considering this does not include any assets, I'd say a compiled version wouldn't do anything anyway.

>>15044171

That's not setting the bar very high. Taking a log type shit is better then explosive diarrhea after eating take out but it's still shit.

>>15044173

OP is a faggot for not including the original Github link. Just clone the repository. You have it archived.

https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution

>>15044175

so, its actually nothing.

>>15044179

the mixtape is the clone, anon.

But it is not compiled, no exe. but as >>15044175 said, no including assets, so it doesn't do anything anyways.

nothingburger.,

someone make a exe and include all assets and shit, zip it and we have our free open source diablo.

>>15044186

Fuck no it isn't. That's merely a snapshot of the source code as of the latest commit. You don't get any of the commit history and everything else associated with version control. To actually archive it

$ git clone https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution

Or use your idiot-friendly Git client to do the same thing.

>>15043533

They are already doing it, it's called the Robot War Engine: https://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45555

Polite sage for offtopic

>>15044201

yes, i am retarded, don't know how to make an exe with the diablo.dsw

>>15044207

you don't need to

the result will be identical if not worse than the existing diablo.exe

this is only of value to people looking to mod or port the game, there is currently no reason to play this over the original

>>15044145

> FOSS is kept FOSS because of copyright

> free is kept free because of nonfree

I don't know how many paint chips it takes to be this retarded, but by all means keep eating them.

Diablo still runs on Windows 7. This is neat and may be good in the future, but for right now I don't see a reason to use it.

>Will you be reverse engineering Diablo II next? Ooooh please!

>Absolutely not. Diablo II is still supported, sold, and maintained by Blizzard. Setting the legal implications aside, there's about 8x as much code, and a chance Blizzard will remaster the game soon anyway. (as of 2018)

>Blizzard will remaster the game soon anyway. (as of 2018)

What? Is that true?

>>15043714

> Not playing Diablo 1 as an emulated PS1 game on Linux, like it was intended to.

>>15044239

Why do you think it's called "copyleft"? Do you really think it's not some kind of licensing?

>>15044173

>>15044179

>>15044186

Read the thread again. The zip snapshot is for people who don't want to deal with Microsoft's new Github.

>>15044243

The Project is intended for making modding easier if I have read that right. All I have found on the Diable 2 remaster are speculations and a interview with David Brevik the creator of Devilution is probably parroting.

>>15044253

Diablo came out for PC first, you dipshit. The PSX version is far inferior to the PC version.

Dependencies

Arch Linux

pacman -S mingw-w64-gcc mingw-w64-binutils

Building

git clone https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution

cd devilution

cp /path/to/diablo_game_dir/diabloui.dll .

cp /path/to/diablo_game_dir/storm.dll .

make

On a 32-bit host, $ make MINGW32=mingw32 should be used, to specify the 32-bit toolchain.

Install

cp devilution.exe /path/to/diablo_game_dir/

Run

wine devilution.exe

>>15044261

> The PSX version is far inferior to the PC version.

not in my memories.

>>15044261

And, actually the PS1 version was better due to co-op.

>>15044263

>still have to use wine to run

port when?

>1200 hours

>it will probably take twice of this time just to make code more or less readable

RE is fucking hell. I guess you should have extreme level of autism to do this.

>>15044243

>Blizzard will remaster the game soon anyway. (as of 2018)

Most I could find is a Blizzard job posting that mentions "restoring them to glory" after mentioning Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo.

A lot of these articles are REALLY reaching, sometimes flat out quoting literal nobodies or even changing the subject midway. But despite all the clickbait, "restoring them to glory" is hard to ignore especially after the StarCraft remaster. Then again, we might get WC3 remastred instead.

>>15041589

> With it With this, making a open source Diablo engine shouldn't be no problem.

What about Freeablo? It's playable.

https://freeablo.org/

>>15044241

>>15044258

If there were no copyright laws and every single work were in the public domain, would you need a copyright license?

>>15044325

Depends. Does everyone agree to play nice and maintain source code access even in modified versions? That's what copyleft helps preserve.

>>15044332

What do you mean?

>>15044341

The closest equivalent to public domain is BSD-style licensing (permissive) which generally just require attribution. With "copyleft" style licenses, it's a legal requirement that modified copies also come with the source code used to generate them, which for computer programs is paramount to ensure future modification or forking. I do trust most people to play nice even without external constraint but then you get to scummy fucks on app stores who are happy to stick adware and other shit into open software and sell it.

>>15044282

>A snapshot of how it is now is next to worthless.

If you want to contribute to the project itself or think you need all the change logs. Yes, its still a GIT repository, like Hotmail is was just ordinary webmail. This doesn't mean Microsoft won't fuck with Shithub in the long run or get simply jack the repository on Blizzard's behalf. This is why also think that having it all could cause some headache. The commit messages still contain the handles and if they are included in a new GIT repository, it could be piss easy to find.

>Also, even an archive of the Git repo now will go stale.

Assuming that it won't get jacked. What it very likely will. We are talking about Blizzard here.

>>15044298

It could be helped out with this project along the way. In fact it is already talked about in their Gitterchat.

>>15044341

By that he means that people could get very protective of their modifications. What made copyright sound good in the beginning was its limited protection with the built in promise that the patented Item becomes public domain as soon it runs out. This made sense when patents expired after 21 years. It doesn't when they only expire after death of the patent holder plus upt to 70 years. There are other practices the other Anon above me has mentioned: Some people like to cram their spying and advertizing shit into their freeware. Commercial use is also a concern when it comes to open sauce things. The license with the least headache for companies utilizing free software is the Apache License. The one with the most pain is GPL. That's another problem that was intended to circumvent with Copyright: Since ideas are property, how is assured that that their owners can not go around fuck everyone who uses them in the ass?

>Open-Source Diablo with native Linux support

Oh baby. Now if only that would've put that effort into 2, which everyone would've preferred.

>>15044379

For god's sake let me spell it out to you.

>git clone repo

>I now have a copy of the full Git history on my computer that can also be updated as the version on Github does

>If it gets pulled I retain my copy

The version I posted is exactly that. Get it now? I want incompetents to stop commenting on shit they don't have a clue about.

>>15044402

I want both!

>>15044429

Yes. In fact I have intended the snapshot to be a option for copying it immediately and continue from where the original project left off. Can you also separate the commit messages from the repository? I haven't gone into the effort of installing GIT on my wangblows machine, making a shithub account and then cloning the repository, because the that effort wouldn't be justified if the next person who wants to use GIT with it would have to build a secret GIT instance that only him and everyone else inside a circlejerk know about for it would always get jacked whenever it gets out to the public. With the username Galaxyhaxz (Galaxy Hacks. Got it?) attached to it would always piss easy to find.

>>15044472

Your entire post can be summed up as you don't have a clue and until you make a modicum of effort, maybe stop trying to pretend you know better. Look into how version control works and why you'd want to have the full history of a program and all of its code changes. You also don't understand that Github is literally providing a platform for Git repositories and that the version control system Git was developed by the fucking founder of the Linux kernel and the tool is free and open source. Anyone who clones a Git repository is doing exactly that.

>>15044571

The username of the initiator and biggest conributor to the project is enough to find the next repository relatively quickly.I furthermore remind you that the archive link was used for linking to the repository without giving that away that it is linked here. Maybe stop whatever you are trying here by spouting shit I have already known, then scroll up and read your own posts. As you can see, it has worked out as intended. What wasn't intended is some autist going on a rant, because In didn't jump through enough hoops before creating this thread.

>>15044624

If Blizzard are that determined to shut down any attempts at RE to Diablo, then the commit author's name is irrelevant. It's a lot more important that you preserve a full copy of the Git repo since you can trivially generate a "current commit" source ZIP from it but your "archive" is lacking so much critical information.

>>15044266

Shit GUI, shit performance and the PC version had Multiplayer as well. Emulating it the PSX version with Mednafen on Lunix is not what I call the way it was intended to play on a fucking PC.

>>15044636

>but your "archive" is lacking so much critical information.

You have already copied.

> you can trivially generate a "current commit" source ZIP from it

Thanks for finally answering my question. And no, I will not link to GIT repositories of the next spectacular leak directly. This is how really attention whoring shitheads find threads about their shit.

>>15044644

>You have already copied.

That's because I actually know what I'm doing, and you're just being a half-wit who isn't actually preserving shit because he doesn't know what he's doing.

>And no, I will not link to GIT repositories of the next spectacular leak directly.

OK seriously, shut the fuck up and actually try to understand. If you don't link the Git repository you are preventing people from making a copy of it. Do you not know what a copy is? It means a copy. It doesn't matter one whit whether Github takes it down. I've got it, and so does everyone else who copied the repo. At this point you're just being embarrassing so fuck off.

Better mirror this repo quickly before blizzard gets their lawyers ready.

>>15044402

>>15044429

The guy making this explicitly stated that diablo 1 is the only purpose of this but I wouldn't be surprised if someone made a mod that brought diablo 2 to the diablo 1 engine.

>>15044685

>brought diablo 2 to the diablo 1 engine.

That sounds impossible based on the movement alone.

>>15044693

Well maybe liberties would have to be taken here and there to account for engine differences. But an attempt to see diablo 2 on the diablo 1 engine would be most fascinating.

>>15044716

>this fucking retard thinks archive.is/fo can clone gits

sudoku

>>15044359

I've asked, however implicitly, whether anyone would need a software license for any purpose, which includes studying, modifying and distributing whatever versions of the program they wished in the absence of copyright laws. I didn't presume there should be any source code available e.g. as there wasn't in the case of Devilution, and and you didn't need to enter into this issue of the source code of modified versions of the program if you had understood that. The answer to the question is no. The concept of a license in absence of copyright is absurd, and all software in a world without copyright would either be free or a trade secret, with e.g. a cracked copy of Windows being at most a violation of Microsoft's trademarks. But you've replied as someone who "needs" (rather "wants") copyright in order to somehow induce developers to publish the source code of modified versions of the program in order not to be fucked in the ass by them, which is a fair concern. But whether copyright is actually able to do that, I'm not so sure. The more I think about it, detection of software copyright infringement seems like a nightmare. I've downloaded a copy of a book on it which opens with a dedication "to all those who attempt to do things that others say are wrong or impossible", which seems to me rather suggestive. But even detection presumes that copies of the software in question are being distributed rather than e.g. being used while obscured by being provided as a service. It seems to me that whether or not there are copyright laws and means of enforcing restrictive licenses, you'd depend a good deal on the goodwill of the developer. But I won't enter further into any of that. The point is that free software would still be free in the absence of copyright laws, since in such a case everything now would be free. You've shat on >>15044239 unfairly, or at least for the wrong reasons. If you wanted to shit on him, you should have done so for talking about freedom while missing out on the legal mechanisms meant to keep the OS part of FOSS.

FUCK BLIZZKIKE IN THE ARSEHOLE

SPREAD THIS SHIT LIKE JEWISH POZZ

>>15044932

Stop trying so hard.

I bet you never finished Diablo, because you rushed through it and then got fucked by Diablo at the end.

>>15044956

Try King Leroic. He is hard enough for some faggots.

>>15044771

You sperged out as well. You didn't fuck up with providing the source but your explanations clearly showed you were talking out of your ass and you should avoid talking about things you do not know about in the future.

>>15044272

There is this thing you may not have heard of. It's called an ethernet cable.

>>15050173

Not a good argument when there were null modems and daisy chaining together PC over LAN was already as easy as ABC.

>>15050173

I have a hole in my wall because the router is in my living room.I drilled a hole then snaked the ethernet cable through. Best thing I ever did to be honest. Connections are stable instead of fluctuating and everything works perfectly.

If anyone here hasn't done it already, use Ethernet.

>>15041611

1 is a fuckton better than 2 anyway.

>>15050400

2 is shit compared to 1

This is just decompiled and has at points contained byte for byte copied assembly code, still present in the git history. It will be nuked from orbit as it's a copyright violation, not even remotely close to a clean room "reconstruction".

>>15051500

download it before it gets taken down though

>>15051358

You are shit compared to dog shit.

>>15055421

>extra-assed

I've never used branches and this particular repository doesn't use them, but no, I welcome corrections to my method if it's incomplete.

>Diablo 1 but without restricted color pallet and frequency cap

Nice

>>15041589

Thanks.

>>15050400

i want summer to be over

>>15041792

It's basically the first ARPG, if you've played that you'll know what Diablo is like. Most notable thing about it is it's atmosphere.

>Pass executable through decompiler

>Call it a day

>Make a fuss about it

Lmao. Why would you ever want to work on a decompiled source grabbed from an ancient executable? You would end up with a better game if you decided to write it from scratch, a la OpenMW

single question

why? unless you are making a mod for the engine or unofficial patch its pretty useless

its not like X-Ray that you can upgrade, its so outdated you have to build it from scratch.

>>15078187

>>15078116

You can do the same things either way, it's just some of them are harder in one or other approach.

Advantages of a fresh codebase:

>full source

>cleaner code

>better understanding

>can be written with compatibility in mind

Advantages of recompiling:

>perfect original in-game behavior

>file/network compatibility with prior versions

>may allow you to code around "black box" modules you don't understand

>>15078187

The best approach would be for you to write a clean codebase but use the disassembly as pointers for how it needs to be done, and how to reproduce wonky vanilla behaviour if that's desired. I'd say possibly, it depends whether the devs are prone to doing stupid alterations à la OpenRA. Overfixing is infinitely worse.

>>15078116

Read the guy's intention: He made that with modding in mind. This makes decompiling the perfect option according to >>15078381.

This gives me the perfect excuse to point out that there is another project related to Devilution. Namely a selfmade documentation of the the Dibalo 1 engine.

https://archive.is/Des5k

Same song and dance as the last archive.

1. Grab the original shithub link

2. Open gitbash inside the folder you want it

3. git clone https://gith...etc

>>15077792

Compability with Wangblows 7.

>>15078116

OpenMW has completely stalled out right now, one of the guys who used to work on the project moved on.