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doctorfargo
Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 20 |
Lucasfilm's Habitat Restoration - Looking for C64 coders
For those of you who don't know - Habitat, the legendary online game by Lucasfilm Games - is being restored!
The project is being lead by original designers - Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar.
We need some C64 coders to help out with two things:
1) Replacing the intro / splash screen with a new picture
2) Coding a custom log in to connect to Habitat
Right now, the project runs on top of Q-Link Reloaded, so the user has to load and log into Q-Link first and then select to play it from the chat room - the goal is to make a custom loader / log-in to by-pass this step, and be able to log-in move conveniently.
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Here's what Habitat needs from QLR: Authenticate user's name, and 1986-era packet encoding/decoding. That is all.
Here's what Habitat needs from the Quantumlink client: Gather the user credential, load and start the MCM executable.
I propose replacing the QLink client completely and replacing it with a much simpler "Login" client. Takes username and password - QLRLITE (new) either validates that combo or creates a new account if the name is unique. Then goes straight to Habitat (MCM).
Ideally, this lite login app would be on the Caribe A disk, and be the one that loads as "*".
If we get that, next up might be to patch MCM to load the data disc (Caribe B) from drive 9 - which would mean we could run with no disk swapping!
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For more information - check out:
www.neohabitat.org
Also check out the Neo-Habitat Slack:
https://neohabitat.slack.com |
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lft
Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 369 |
I agree that it's certainly not a toy computer. It can help with household accounting, and you can even store all your recipies on it! |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 2014 |
Quote: I agree that it's certainly not a toy computer. It can help with household accounting, and you can even store all your recipies on it!
Not to mention Calc 64 for the finance department |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386 |
and keep track of your GFs menstrual cycle! |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2928 |
... or cheat on your wife? |
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HCL
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 728 |
Orly!?! Can i use the breadbin to cheat on wife!? wft, i mean.. Samantha Fox strip poker doesn't count, does it? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386 |
no, it doesn't cunt. |
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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 520 |
peeew!
Samantha fap fap fox |
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cbmeeks
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 78 |
Quote: Real big turn off when their website says ...
"Despite being created in 1986 for a 64k, 1Mhz toy computer, this project is immense."
https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs/
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doctorfargo
Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 20 |
Well, we didn't mean to offend anybody - obviously the C64 is an amazing machine! :-)
We still can use some C64 related help for the things posted above.
Our Slack is:
slack.neohabitat.org |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Good luck with that, you pretty much fucked up. |
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