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I had some fun asking ChatGPT about various Deadlock things and here were some of the results I got. Asking it about OpenDeadlock: As of my knowledge cutoff date in September 2021, there is no project or software specifically called "OpenDeadlock." However, there is a possibility that you ...

Deadlock II works okay under WINE if you use version 1.0 that came with the original retail CD, later versions have the issue you mentioned.

Happy 25th anniversary Deadlock!

uber_nick wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:03 am For instance, we don't need to use the original soundtrack if Chip provided us with a higher quality version.

I've met with Chip, he only has the six tracks he sent me in 2011. The others exist in mono only, 16-bit 22050Hz, from the Power Mac version.

The Gallius IV main site at http://www.galliusiv.com is finally back online, my web host got bought out and the new host made changes without notifying me that broke the site. In addition, I have posted a special article for Gallius IV's 10th anniversary, discussing a special Deadlock adventure I ha...

Impressive so far. However, please ensure you can get this working with version 1.31 before testing this with other people (like Tggtt and myself). Not having the ability to save and reload multiplayer saves will be painful. Also, I'm sure the original documentation says that multiplayer games with ...

Tggtt and I did have success with Deadlock II multiplayer games using TCP/IP and Hamachi, so that will probably work here for testing with other players too.

Maybe it would be possible to add play over the internet directly? Still, that might be a bit too difficult.

And maybe also focus on using Tggtt's patched GOG.com version with restored multiplayer support (at least where NetBIOs is supported) as a basis, as this will work best for modern OSes once multiplayer support is hopefully restored. The patch is here: http://forum.galliusiv.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&...

MildewMan1 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:05 am I've read that UDP sockets can be unreliable though.

UDP isn't designed to be completely reliable, it's mainly design for speed. TCP would be essential for any sort of reliability.

Maybe if you encapsulated the library calls in the DLNET32.DLL it would be possible to pass the IPX commands through to TCP/IP ones, similar to what you did with the WAIL32.DLL. I don't know much about network programming, I only did it at a very basic level in my Computer Science degree. But maybe ...