<div dir="ltr">I'd also like to draw attention to the Mega Man 9 development, which I hear they're using code and tools from the NES days.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Jim Leonard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trixter@oldskool.org">trixter@oldskool.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Vowell, Zachary W wrote:<br>
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I was recently approached by a game programmer who was interested in<br>
recreating game development environments used by game developers in the 80s<br>
and 90s, etc. Or as he called them, "asset creation environments."<br>
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Such environments are extremely specific to the dev house and project. A good example can be found in the Making of The 7th Guest video that was a pack-in that came with the game; they used 3ds plus custom compression tools written by Devine. While you can always get a 486 and load it with 1993-era 3DS, those compression tools are most likely lost.<br>
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