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mlogans91:
Would it be possible to get that old Windows 95 game Chip's Challenge on an iPod? It seems like it would be absolutely perfect for Rockbox. Here's a link to the game for people who don't know it:
http://takegame.com/arcade/htm/chipschallenge.htm

Chronon:
I don't see any source code for it, nor any explicit license.  It looks like someone would have to basically code a clone of it from the ground up.  It's certainly possible to do that.  But it also sounds like quite a lot of work.

cool_walking_:
I used to love that game!  It seems like it would be well suited to Rockbox.  The source code doesn't seem to be available though, and without GPL-compatible source code, it's not so much a port as it is writing it from scratch.  It seems like the owner of that website isn't even the author, but is just (illegally, probably) offering it for download.


I found this GPL'd "emulation" called Tile World written in C using SDL.

LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: mlogans91 on March 17, 2008, 01:12:22 AM ---that old Windows 95 game Chip's Challenge

--- End quote ---

A bit off-topic here: for the record, Chip's Challenge is quite a bit older than its Windows 95 port will let on. The game originally came out on the Atari ST and ZX Spectrum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%27s_Challenge

But cool_walking_ is right; Tile World is GPL and in C, so porting it would be easy enough.

Domonoky:
Hi,

i just looked a bit a Tile world, and it looks like an easy job to port, but the Problem is the graphics.
The smallest tiles aviable for Tile World is 32x32, which means with the 9x9 field of Tile World it needs a minimum 288x288 pixels, so we would need new smaller graphics..

 

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