SS1 SHLink - System Shock Windows wrapper (no music)

[6750a9ae33de9vyor]

Y I HAVE NO EDIT FUNCTION!!!


Well, I have a bit of a bug report... apparently, windows does not like this game in full screen...By that i mean, that my computer crashed... It came up as a black screen, and froze there, even ctrl-alt-del didn't work. I had to turn it(the computer) off, so, ya...

[6750a9ae33fdcKolya]

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[6750a9ae34119vyor]

I AM REGISTERED THOUGH!!! D:<

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[6750a9ae34279Kolya]

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[6750a9ae343a2Urioxis]

Malba, I'm working on getting this to build on Linux with openwatcom, nasm etc (same as the windows toolchain) and just wanted to check something. I assume you've built this before on linux (as evidenced by the fact that there's a linux.c and linux.asm to complement the windows equivalents) but I'm having to change a fair few things to get it working. Did you build it with GCC before or something?

[6750a9ae34485Malba Tahan]

No, I tried to add Linux support later, but gave up thinking people probably wouldn't be trying to run it under Linux.

[6750a9ae345afUrioxis]

Snazzy . Well I did always like being the odd one out. Cool, well I'll change away and get it working. One other thing, some of the issues are due to preprocessor conditionals not including the correct header files. In fixing these, I'm assuming that no one is going to try and build this on an MS OS older than Win95 (ie, nothing that's not Win32). Is that a bad assumption?

[6750a9ae346bbvyor]

would SS1 even work on something from 94 and under?

[6750a9ae3481aKolya]

Yes, but it had very high system requirements for the time.

[6750a9ae34b1cniculinux]

No, I tried to add Linux support later, but gave up thinking people probably wouldn't be trying to run it under Linux.

Hello!

Well, I registered today as soon as I read that sentence....hell I wanna play ss and ss2 on linux!

[6750a9ae34ce6voodoo47]

-> https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4432.msg49837#msg49837

[6750a9ae34e6fJoey]

Is this project still alive? 
I'm wondering this because if anybody has played the DOS version you would agree that it runs at a low 20 fps full screen.
But with this build it runs wonderfully on my computer (Vista). 
Two problems though... first the game still crashes *a lot* so save often and no music. Well, the game didn't have very many songs anyway so what I do is I run the songs in the background according to the level I am on. It's easier than it sounds. You can download the original midi songs here: https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=2285

[6750a9ae34f7evoodoo47]

music is not implemented yet, and Malba Tahan is still active here, so you can help by sharing saves and describing where the crashes occurred.

[6750a9ae351dbJoey]

Well, I've only gotten to the reactor level so far and the game has crashed quite a bit. It has crashed at least once on each level. (Level 01-crash near elevator and cyborg conversion) (Level 02- crash near lift 2, near the isotope, and at the restoration center) (Level R- lots of crashes on this level mostly near the reactor core)

The crashes usually occur near the end of a level, when the auto map has been revealed and lots of dead enemies litter the ground.

The Red marks are the general crash locations:

L1
L2
LR
L3
L4
L5
L6
L7
L8
L9

Hopefully this helps.     I'll keep an accurate account of where the game crashes from now on.

[6750a9ae352c1Malba Tahan]

Thank you for bug reporting!

[6750a9ae353c0Joey]

Sorry I made the images so big, but thanks for fixing it.

[6750a9ae3550aJoey]

Malba Tahan, I really respect all of the work you have done on the System Shock Loader. All of the support you have added to the loader has allowed my brother to play system shock on his Windows 7 OP and so far he says it runs very well. Necessary thanks go to you and anybody else who may have also contributed to the project. 

[6750a9ae35608Rafael]

I didn't play the game yet, but this entire project is really inspiring. Great job Mr. Malba

[6750a9ae35783madi]

hi, bought the disk version when it came out...
win7 64 works with music (just starting)
can't choose higher than 640x480, and it won't save preferences..
don't know the cause of this..
thanks anyway

[6750a9ae35890Kolya]

All the best to you mate! \/

[6750a9ae35a40Kolya]

Possibly worth checking out: All of the "human corpse" sprites in the game have a full set of 8 rotations in OBJART.RES, though the game always displays the same one regardless of angle. (http://tcrf.net/System_Shock#Corpses)
This may have been done intentionally to avoid visible sprite swapping. It still might be useful, eg by randomly assigning one of the sprite angles to each model, to achieve more diversity.

[6750a9ae35d9eMalba Tahan]

All the best to you mate! \/

Thanks a lot, Kolya, I saw your post just today!!
Wow, and it's written in my native language! Thank you again! 

[6750a9ae35ef3lethal_guitar]

My first post here, so apologies if I did something wrong..

I was wondering how active this still is, and if anybody has continued working on the Linux version. Is the source code download from the OP still up to date?

Malba Tahan, what is your opinion on putting the current source code up on some site like github, sourceforge or similar? I'm a programmer myself, and I'd be happy to help in implementing the Linux version.

Great work btw!!

[6750a9ae360e4Briareos H]

The source code is in the first post.

I'd love to see this finished, it's no secret that SS1 is my 'best game ever' and will probably remain so for the years to come. For someone who replays the game so often or just for the sake of future-proofing, this project is a godsend so I hope you'll get the time to complete it, Malba Tahan.

If the music system is too complicated to interface in Windows, maybe you could add a regular media decoding library with hooks to level changes in the meantime? It's not the best solution, but it's a relatively easy one and, that way, people can try to create the best possible digital audio tracks from the MIDI originals for everyone to use.