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Dune Dynasty
David Wang
Member #4,871
July 2004
Posted on 09/29/2012 3:13 AM   View Profile

I'm happy to announce Dune Dynasty v1.1.

Dune Dynasty is a continuation of the classic real-time strategy game Dune II by Westwood Studios. It is not a remake. It builds upon the original game engine as reverse-engineered by the OpenDUNE project.

Dune Dynasty features these modern enhancements:

  • Runs natively on Linux and Windows (OpenGL required)

  • High-resolution graphics, including zooming

  • Multiple unit selection with control groups

  • New build queue interface

  • Rally points

  • Multiple sound channels

Plus:

  • Emulated Ad-Lib sound and music playback

  • General MIDI playback using FluidSynth

  • Bug fixes

  • Smoother unit animation

  • Brutal AI mode

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Source code is available, and Windows binaries are provided.
You will need the *.PAK data files from the EU v1.07 release of Dune II.

SourceForge download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dunedynasty/files/
Depot page: http://www.allegro.cc/depot/DuneDynasty

Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Posted on 09/29/2012 10:15 AM   View Profile

Even after all these years, Dune II has a certain, difficult to define charm that other RTS never managed (largely, at least).

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Trezker
Member #1,739
December 2001
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Posted on 09/29/2012 12:16 PM   View Profile

Are there plans for replacing the original data files with free ones?

[My github]

David Wang
Member #4,871
July 2004
Posted on 09/29/2012 9:23 PM   View Profile

I don't plan on replacing the original data files. It wouldn't be hard to load and use a different sprite sheet, but redrawing the graphics would take some work.

Neil Roy
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April 2002
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Posted on 10/01/2012 10:43 AM   View Profile

Looks nice, been a while since I played DUNE II. I may check it out.

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Luiji99
Member #12,254
September 2010
Posted on 10/01/2012 12:39 PM   View Profile

How many sprites are there?

Programming should be fun. That's why I hate Java.

David Wang
Member #4,871
July 2004
Posted on 10/01/2012 7:41 PM   View Profile

There are about 1000 sprites in the game (excluding palette swaps), plus about 100 background images and animations. So there aren't actually THAT many sprites, but
still too many for me to undertake.

Feel free to make replacement sprites though, double- or triple-size ones even, and I'll add in support for them.

Peter Wang
Member #23
April 2000
Posted on 10/02/2012 6:37 AM   View Profile

And the music and sound effects and campaign scripts and portraits and cinematics and the intro.. all theoretically replaceable or droppable, but you wouldn't be left with Dune.

Luiji99
Member #12,254
September 2010
Posted on 10/02/2012 9:31 AM   View Profile

No, it'd be FreeDune. :P

Programming should be fun. That's why I hate Java.

Trezker
Member #1,739
December 2001
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Posted on 10/02/2012 11:31 AM   View Profile

Just like OpenTTD. It took a long time, but they finally replaced everything.
And they have about ten times more features than the original game.

[My github]

Luiji99
Member #12,254
September 2010
Posted on 10/02/2012 1:24 PM   View Profile

Which, you know, makes it a much lamer. :P

Programming should be fun. That's why I hate Java.

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