Dune Team

[Duneguy]

Hey i am the one with all the crazy ideas, but i am thinking of constructing a team of programmers and atrists that are going to make a deplica of Dune. it would be home to new graphics. original soundtracks, new art. it would be Awesome. i am going to be contacting Cyro to see what i can get from then costing as little as possible. if you think this would be a semi-decent idea jus tell em and i will contacy Cyro. or virgin games or whoever i have to to lear more about teh programmign of the orginal dune and teh access to all the files inside of their compressed files.. but i would liek to see what you guys think before i waste my time. ???

[exatreide]

sounds good if you can....i dont think virgin games exist anymore....

[Duneguy]

Yeah if i cant find anything on virgin which i should be able to do, my uncle works for some big computer corp and i will see what he can do for me.

[exatreide]

hmmmm....sounds good....keep updating.

[Duneguy]

I did some research and i found that Virgin games was purchased by Titus. I Contacted titus today and i am eagerly waiting for a reply. i am presently open for any help from anyone who either had ideas on how the game shall be(liek the original or more 3d like) if there are any programmers here in teh boards that are interested i should be getting some programming stats on the files from dune sometiem in the future. well i am about to go to some research and make some calls...

i will be makign further updates day by day if there is anything new.

[Duneguy]

umm osrry i have no yupdates as of now i am still waiting for a reply if i dont get one within a few more days i will jus call them.

[Duneguy]

No information has been sent to me so this is all at a standstill.. i am currently busy with other things but if i ever get some info from TITUS i would be able to start...

[Duneguy]

STANDSTILlllllllllll

argh this sucks...trying to do other stuff. i dotn think this is going to work, i need that affirmative to start ANYTHING..

[exatreide]

not realy.....you can get started.......its just selling it or distributing it would be the problem.

[gryphon]

i will contacy Cyro. or virgin games or whoever i have to to lear more about teh programmign of the orginal dune and teh access to all the files inside of their compressed files.. but i would liek to see what you guys think before i waste my time. ???

Don't mean it as a downside but think you have a verry, verry small change of getting any of the source codes.

[Duneguy]

Umm i just meant to ask hwo they compressed it and such.. if i knew that i would be able to get whatever i needed. all i really  need is fro them to tell me it is okay to do whatever i want. then i will call up my uncle.

[gryphon]

You mean you want to decompile / reverse engeneer them ? [ or it, not that many files in Dune I ]

That's illegal, don't think they'll grant you permission to do that to.

note, I've edited the last part out due to this rule on the site.

"Discussion on pirating software is not allowed."

funny in a way, I'm correcting my own posts :)

[Duneguy]

Srry i didnt know about the " Anti-Pirating going on here".... i have a questions though. Dune Editing is a for of Pirating ........ isnt it?

[gryphon]

Not if you have the permission of the author of the game.

And then you are allowd to make aditional things and edit some files without crossing the limitations of "pirating the software". Like making your own map and place it besides the others in the apr. directory. Or edit some lines in a TXT file that make your unit stronger or so.

You just can't toutch the compressed files.

[Duneguy]

Hey, alright, that makes perfect sense.well time to go mod soem games then. lol

[Babylon]

Well, if you get the code (and sorry, but no I don't think you will) from Dune I. And it isn't too hard. I mean I most defenitly have to adapt as a Java-Developer (Dune I ISN'T in Java ;) ). I would sure like to help! But I think if you want it, they will try to sell it. On the other hand, I saw the official source of Wolfenstein 3d somewhere a time ago. And that was released by ID. So maybe you have a change.

[gryphon]

There are some software companies that give away a source code of a popular game every year [ or ones in a while ]. So fans can see how it was made, learn from it and make there own versions and ad-on's

[Duneguy]

hrmm abotu how much do they sell the source for? just a guess...

[Babylon]

If they wanna, they can charge you thousands of $. I dunno.

[gryphon]

I did say "give away" in my previous posts didn't I ;)

[Duneguy]

hrmm yeah but i dont think they will just give it away.. they need all the money they can get.

[gryphon]

Nope, the games have allready brought in millions. And this way they keep them "alive" and help some others. [ so they can learn from it, or edit them the way they want ]

Not all game developers are those scary-money-seeking-basterds. :)

[pencilgod]

If you're looking for an artist, I'd definately be interested. I'm pretty good with Photoshop.