Wow!!
Welcome back.
Dustin, the original author, still lurks around a bit. I try not to change anything major without his permission and blessing.
I've been wanting to play this game again (I was addicted) but I haven't dialed into a BBS in a loooong time.
telnet://bbs.operationoverkill.com/ has the original game running as well. It's not perfect since it's a 16bit DOS/Modem game running on Windows NT, but it's all we have for now.
I tried the telnet operationoverkill.com and I must say I am impressed.
An almost dead project that I recently revived because a coworker pointed out a killer idea that solved a problem I was having.
It's a nasty abuse of the C language, but holy shit the results speak for themselves!
Now I'm curious about how the backend is run for this game (ie. How does this run (linux, etc)).
The backend you are running it on is a Dual Pentium Pro 233 with 192megs of RAM. It runs Fedora Core 1 and also runs the website here. OOIS doesn't take up much processing power even with a couple people on it.
The code also runs on Windows NT (4, 2000, XP, 2003), any type of Linux system (including SPARC), and SGI's IRIX. I've also run it on Solaris, but I rebuilt that system with Gentoo.
It's C/C++ right now and once I get it cleaned up will be very pure C++. The ideal target is a Unix platform, but I develop it mostly on Windows and then let you guys test it on Linux. The cross platform code is less than 100 lines, so ...
I tried to use a very modern architecture as well. It uses memory mapped files instead of typical file access. Network I/O is threaded and the game code uses a hybrid C-scripting system. The design was to allow 100 simultaneous players. The reality is that it could probably handle 1,000.
With a little luck all of this base code will get recycled into some sort of Overkill sequel. However first I need to finish porting the original game.
Enjoy!
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