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11th July 2022
Yesterday, after posting a video of Alien Deathmatch Arena (SmileBASIC) to Twitter, I tried linking to the original Alien Deathmatch..
.. The result was less than perfect.

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Alien Deathmatch (the original) was created using Blitz3D, and is in fact one of my earliest games coded with B3D.
I was fairly sure that B3D code would run on modern systems, but, try as I might, I can't seem to get the thing running any more.

Hmmm..
Maybe it's Win10? Maybe it's the fact that I'm running it through Remote Desktop? Maybe it's because Win10 is running on a MacMini (Intel)?
Who knows.
All I do know is that the game just isn't running for me.

Which means two things..
1. I have to find a way to mark all my old games as being "Old!"
and
2. I could really do with a new version of Alien Deathmatch, preferably in Browsercade.

Of course, that comes with it's own issue, in that Browsercade doesn't support WASD+Mouse, and/or TwinStick, for Alien Deathmatch, so I'd have to code that, too.

Hmmm...
Maybe I should just focus on the SmileBASIC version, first.

Twitter video of the current engine in progress.
It's coming along fairly well, now that I've figured out how I'm doing the shadows, but I'm not convinced I can keep it up once all the enemies and bullets are sprawling about on the screen!
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