Decompilation

[pminotti]

Does anynody know good tools for decompiling in order to port a Lynx game to another platform (with better graphics)?

[Harry_Dodgson]

Seeing as most Lynx games were written in 65C02 assembly, anything you get from reverse-engineering them would be highly non-portable code. I suggest if you want a Lynx game on another system, start from scratch and write it yourself.

[Albert]

I agree, without the original source a disassembly of a Lynx game probably wouldn't be terribly useful. It might help to determine how some game-specific algorithms work (if you want to try and faithfully reproduce game mechanics), but outside of that you'd probably want to simply write the game from scratch on the target system.

 

Even with the original code, unless you're porting the game to the same or similar processor, it probably would be easier to start over. And then aside from the processor, any support chips (graphics, sound, input, etc.) are going to be completely different.

 

What game are you looking to port, and to which platform?

 

..Al

 

[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: Albert ]