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minus-squareRedRibbonArmy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoRollercoaster Tycoon has joined the chat.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agoCompared with any modern codebase that’s still tiny. From what I can see Rollercoaster Tycoon was hand-written by a single person, so it by definition cannot be huge.
minus-squareAnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI wish that the code was open source, because it’d be super interesting to be able to look under the hood of a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agoIt kinda is. Assembly is a 1:1 machine-code equivalent, so you just have to run the game through a disassembler and you get the “source”. You just dont get the documentation.
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Compared with any modern codebase that’s still tiny.
From what I can see Rollercoaster Tycoon was hand-written by a single person, so it by definition cannot be huge.
I wish that the code was open source, because it’d be super interesting to be able to look under the hood of a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon
It kinda is. Assembly is a 1:1 machine-code equivalent, so you just have to run the game through a disassembler and you get the “source”. You just dont get the documentation.