[game_preservation] Recreating game development environments

[Captain Commando]

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.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:


> 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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