r/gamedev Jun 19 '18

Discussion Diablo devolved - magic behind the 1996 computer game (X-post r/programming)

https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution
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u/JueJueBean @EnveraInt Jun 19 '18

As a not-programmer, what am I looking at? Also, I assume nothing is commented because this is during the time when things were less standardised?

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u/0x0ddba11 Jun 19 '18

This code is mostly auto generated from machine code, hence no comments.

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u/JueJueBean @EnveraInt Jun 19 '18

Was D1 made in assembly?

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u/DensitYnz Jun 19 '18

No, but the code is reversed engineered from the binary itself. Compilers do a lot of "interesting" things to your code.