Incline Carmack and Romero's Old Games Open Sourced

[Drax]

Shit no one gives a shit about is now open source!

Softdisk was the company where John Carmack, John Romero, and Adrian Carmack met and developed games originally before founding id Software. Those original Softdisk game titles are now being open-sourced under the GPL.

The original Softdisk games created by the id Software founders are now owned by Flat Rock Software. Flat Rock Software has decided to go ahead and open-source these old classics. Among the games with their sources out there are TheCatacomb, Catacomb3D, Catacomb, and Hovertank3D.

These classic id game titles are now GPL'ed and available freely via FlatRockSoft's GitHub and was confirmed by John Carmack. As with other id Software source releases, the engine is open-sourced under the GPLv2 but the game data still requires having a licensed copy of the content.

The original Catacomb was written in Borland Turbo Pascal 5.5 while at least Hovertank3D and the newer Catacombs are written in C++.

Never played'em. Any old fart remember this games?

 

[Sceptic]

Catacomb was actually written in Turbo Pascal?

Anyway yeah I remember them, they're no that old (seriously, this was already the 90s). Catacomb and The Catacomb were top-down action games, Catacomb was kinda like a demo for The Catacomb really, it was only 10 levels and you couldn't even save. Mechanics wise neither was very remarkable but The Catacomb had some solid level design, including non-linearity later on and backtracking through previous levels. Hovertank 3D was the first game to use what became the Wolf 3D engine and was pretty much the first FPS as we know them now. Catacomb 3D added some things to the engine (like actual wall textures), and I remember it better than Hovertank.

 

[Kersey]

No Dark Designs? Disappointed.

 

[Luzur]

i played Hovertank but this is the first time ive seen Catacomb.