I got my hands on the binary executable for the game. I wrote a disassembler to turn it into human-readable op-codes and proceeded to translate it to C++ using the Microsoft Version 6.0 C++ compiler. Eight hours a day for six months. About 120,000 lines of pseudo-assembly language. Crazy thing to do. But it works.
The game and the source code are free to do with as you please.
If it is based on a disassembly, can it really be free code or was there a copyright violated?
Need to check from a legal perspective and then make a decision for many similar cases (there are quite a lot disassembled executable projects).
http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/851 http://www.dianneandpaul.net/CSBwin/
If it is based on a disassembly, can it really be free code or was there a copyright violated?
Need to check from a legal perspective and then make a decision for many similar cases (there are quite a lot disassembled executable projects).