Experimenting with JA2 sources

Overview

The main branch is based on gtrafimenkov/ja2-vanilla with following changes:

• the code is split into platform-independent (ja2lib) and platform-specific parts (platfrom-*) for following reasons:
  • make it easier to port to other platforms
  • make it easier to develop on Linux
• small C++ parts of the code were converted to C so that the whole codebase is C now. That should make it easier to integrate this code with other programming languages

Other branches contain different experiments.

Project structure

ja2lib             - platform-independent part of the game code
platfrom-dummy     - dummy implementation of the platfrom code (used in unit tests)
platform-linux     - platform code for Linux
platform-win32     - platform code for win32
bin-win32          - project to build the game binary for Windows
bin-linux          - project to build Linux binary of the game (not implemented)
unittester         - an application to run unit tests

How to build

• open the solution in Visual Studio 2022
• choose Release configuration
• choose Build Solution

How to play the game

• install the original version of the game (from the original game CDs, Steam, gog.com, etc.)
• copy the builded exe file (Release\ja2-win32.exe) to the game directory alongside the original ja2.exe
• (for Windows 10) copy Windows 10 compatibility files from tools/dxwrapper to the game directory
• launch the builded exe file

The game is tested on Windows 10.

License

This is not open source as defined by The Open Source Definition. The original JA2 sources were released under the terms of SFI-SCLA license. Please read it carefully and make your own mind regarding this.