Jazz1 Recode
 

okay, I was just sort of getting sick of all the polls and decided to post some sensible topic.

Recoding Jj1, does anybody know enough of this ancient language to recode it into a better Jj1 with possibly multiplayer?

Eh? :confused: are you talking about JJ1 being enhanced? if so why? Jazz2 has all the stuff (including multiplayer) so why would we need an enhanced Jazz1?

I think its a good idea :D but nope I dont know Pascal but I woudl like to learn it..more Jazz1 lvls..Jazz1 lvl edditor:D We wish..
I had this idea for a while

Obviously becuase Jj1 would run faster, a bit better compatibility, and just becuase I think it would be fun to have some of the things jj2 lacked (3d bonus levels) in there with multiplayer. Other than that, a good recoding would probably give it a faster netplay.

The only person I know who has any knowledge in pascal is my dad. He doesn't care about jazz1, though ;P

It's fully possible to make JJ1 levels.. it just takes forever and a day. So that I think there must have been some other way, that they didn't include.

I think its a great idea, but how about a Jazz1 lvl edditor, that should be possible...and the ability to also create 3D levels:D once I get my own PC that will be ok!
Get a book on pascal or something, get the Jazz1 code if you dont alerady have it or if I am right, use a debugger..
I lov Jazz1!
I hope this happens:D multi player internet play..reprogram it in C++ or something..include all the origional lvls duh....

The Jazz1 source code was released? Did I miss something important again?

page please if it was released... if not, Ima gonna go bug epic, isn't it freeware now?

Go bug epic=:p we/who? have the Jazz2 Source code or some of it..
I doubt its freeware..

Not Freeware
 

No, not yet. :p They like to toture and torment us by not releasing it.


Actually, they forgot it existed, so they can't make it freeware. Arjan also thought this engine had potential...but forgot about it too, so we'll never see it. ;-P


~SB


Recoding? Sounds like fun...we'll let you have all the fun Kaz. :p

Besides the now obsolete efficiency techniques (stuff like color cycling), I probably know enough to re-create something like JJ1...

Shadow told me Arjan would give him the JJ1 level editor soon.

Shadow must have quite the collection of cool stuff. I mean there's the *blank* and *blank* and *blank* that I know of so far...

thats an idea recreate Jazz1..as long as it doensnt turn out like Jazz2..
There is already a Jazz1 lvl edditor? cool! then we could heh make Jazz1 lvls..

I coded a bit of Pascal in...errr....the mid-nineties. But, heh, i don't remember a lot so i won't be very helpful :-)

Color cycling... one of the things J2 lacked =P. Is Pascal easy to learn?

dunno in what way the jj1 editor is made.. prolly some dos program.. although Arjan says that the jj1 editor is a lot more advanced then the jj2 editor.. will see..

is going to bug him agian ;P

"Advanced" being in so full of complicated measures it takes forever to learn, and yet does about the same thing.

Erm well me and Quist know Delphi which is BASED on Turbo Pascal but....thats like saying you know Visual Basic to something thats asking if you know BASIC...2 completely different things almost.

Everyone is talking about 1.25 and jj3 and jj1 recreated in 300 years time it'll all be done that everybody'll want a jj4 :p

I think Pascal is kinda hard, I tried learning it from some advanced book tho..I might try again; from the internet..

Yep, I know some basic Delphi. Not enough to make any good games. :)
Monolith, on the other hand attends a game design college..

Delphi is derived from Object Pascal, I think. It may even be fully
compatible.. but I might be wrong.

I think Pascal was intended more as a learning tool, to start people off in learning to program. I first learned to program in Pascal, but then I learned C++...

I'm learning some Pascal right now...it's not that's hard, i just think it's a waste of time. A better intro to C++ would be C (even though some people say it's a hard migration, at least C is useful).

-cheeze

It would be cool if somebody could pull the JJ1 recode off, but someone would have to spend a heck of a lot of their time to do it. Good luck with everything if ya'll try it!

-The March Hare

I still don't see why a Jazz1 recode can be any better than Jazz2.

I think the main problem is that it isn't easy to get to the original images and animations and stuff.

Well, I just thought it'd be a lot easier than a jj2 recode. Jj1 would be better counting it ran in a fast DOS mode... and if you've played it you would have understood how it was actually a challenge.

Why does Shadow get the editor and not me... :(

Because Shadow is Shadow. The admin of everything. The interviewer of Arjan. The man with the connections. That sort of thing.

That's about right.

Shadow have u got the editor yet we all want to know :)

You forgot "The boss of you". :)

~Talec LP

Hey guys! That's not a bad idea! Since nobody will make JJ3, lets ask 'em to make JJ4! We'll just skip JJ3! :D (j/k)


Actually I think it'd be cool to have a JJ1 Expansion pack! But I can't program either :( (I think my brother knows Pascal, but I don't think he's gonna do it. :D He'd be way too busy :p)