Siege of Avalon lifted...

[Steffen Nyeland 10]

Probably more interesting for the German speaking - since this game still has some active and great following/modding in Germany. (But it seems my DP login only works for the English DP forum)

 

Anyway here a bit about the gitHub fork I did on the original deceased source: http://fixedbycode.blogspot.com/2019/03/siege-of-avalon-lifted.html now working with 10.3.1 😉

 

Edited March 23, 2019 by Steffen Nyeland
typo

[Stefan Glienke 2006]

Interesting - I remember playing that game - however it probably was kinda mediocre given the fact that I totally forgot about it until I saw the screenshot which reminded me.

[Steffen Nyeland 10]

So did I - until the GOG release of Diablo reminded me, and the graphics are better and the story on par, but I think there was too much story to read, before getting into action. But it apparently sold nicely in Germany, compared to its home in US. Does that mean that people in the US thinks reading is waste of time 😄

 

I already got positive feedback from people on the German fan/modding forum - and they are keen on getting things done with the code. Meanwhile I continue to remove 10.3.1 compiler warnings, and deleting units.

 

One fun "feature" in the original code that the Delphi 4 compiler let slip through:

interface
  function X: integer;

implementation

procedure X;
begin
  Result := 4;
end;

..if it compiles...

[Steffen Nyeland 10]

..just followed up by part 2: http://fixedbycode.blogspot.com/2019/06/cure-for-pox-found-in-avalon.html?m=1

- with a bit on reverse engineering 😊

[Steffen Nyeland 10]

...and part 3: https://fixedbycode.blogspot.com/2019/06/bringing-pox-cross-platform.html - with bits on FMX, inline variables and RTTI.