Little Big Adventure 1 and 2 open source

[BadFurDay]

https://blog.2point21.com/p/devlog-releasing-lba-open-source

Hopefully this might lead to ports of these 2 amazing games.

These were also known as Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure and Twinsen's Odyssey in America.

[quicksilver]

@badfurday on a side note both of the games work perfectly using dosbox. For good performance a pi 4 is recommended.

[ExarKunIv]

@badfurday
ScummVM recently releases version 2.5.0 which contains support for running LBA1 with some minor issues.

there is a engine on github that might be able to be compiled for the Pi.

[mitu]

@exarkuniv said in Little Big Adventure 1 and 2 open source:

there is a engine on github that might be able to be compiled for the Pi.

If you're referring to the code release mentioned in the post, I doubt it. The code is about 50% x86 assembly, which doesn't natively compile on ARM (or other architectures) as is.

[ExarKunIv]

@mitu it seems the engine that i found it the one that was merged into the ScummVM

[BadFurDay]

@quicksilver I've got them both on there and they do perform very well. Just hopeful that maybe something like OpenTTD and other open source projects might happen where we get improvements on the originals e.g. better resolution.

The reverse engineered engine in ScummVM is TwinEngine, I think it's a good engine but is missing the holomaps. I've heard the released official code is quite messy, even for the PC isn't a straight forward compile and play.