[game_preservation] Recreating game development environments

[Jim Leonard]

Vowell, Zachary W wrote:

> I was recently approached by a game programmer who was interested in

> recreating game development environments used by game developers in the 80s

> and 90s, etc.  Or as he called them, "asset creation environments."


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.
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