lu sur Atari Age, un email de l'auteur du titre :
Jon,
We are the right company responsible for the Centipede 2000
implementation on the
Jaguar, or at least as close as you're going to get... Dark Science
Software has
since been re-formed into a new company and we now do 3D graphics,
animation and
visual effects. The source code (if we still have any of it left) is
archived away
somewhere unknown to me (as I have looked for it about a year ago), but
most likely
has been discarded. At the time we stopped work on the game, only the
core graphics
engine itself was operational and approximately 30% complete - there
was no playable
game of any sort, only the ability to draw very simplistic terrain
(similar to what
we all saw in the original Cybermorph pack-in game) and the ability to
place simple
3D models on this landscape -- low poly mushrooms in this situation.
We could move
the viewport around the terrain and that was it for functionality.
When Atari halted Jaguar development, that was the end of our game...
We did
attempt to buy the development hardware and continue work, but Atari
was just
wrapping it all up and trying to switch to PC development, which also
fell through
before their sale to JTS. We did keep touting the game as "Centipede
2000", but it
may or may not have been able to carry that name on release as
licensing of the
Centipede trademark was still under negotiation - there were no
official contracts
with Atari, only discussion and an on-loan developer kit so we could
get working as
negotiations took place. When Atari started to fall, that's when we
attempted to
purchase the dev kit and continue to develop the game in whatever way
we could for
the system, but as I just mentioned, Atari wanted none of that and took
back all
their development hardware.
I dabbled a bit with Jaguar stuff after the fact, some with the Jaguar
Server dev
mod and a few things, but rapidly lost interest and time to work on
such things. I
think that while Atari will always have a place of fond memory in my
heart, the
Jaguar is more of a sore spot. When I last looked for the code I was
going to
release it into the public domain, but I never located it. I'm 99%
sure it is gone
for good.
- Jeff Kilgroe
- Applied Visual Technologies | DarkScience
- www.appliedvisual.com
C'est vraiment dommage qu'Atari se soit comporté de cette façon à la fin, pourquoi avoir refusé de vendre le kit de développement?
Mr. Tramiel ........... ca fait du bien.
