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See my latest devlog post for this project: I have open sourced the Go build of JC for desktop!

No worries! I’m glad to hear it’s working for you. I can definitely make that work…but I also have to account for the different ways people might want to run it.

Will try to open source soon…some of the code is messy as I try to zero in on the best window management strategy.

I super appreciate your input and replies. This has turned into a screen saver engine that I’m building and I just whipped up another screen saver and posted in the Sierra forum on Reddit minutes ago. It’s a screen saver for game box art so it’s completely different from JC.

Yes, I'm aware, my Go port is based off of the original port by Jérémie GUILLAUME: https://github.com/jno6809/jc_reborn

I’m working on all of this now. What I released so far is just the isolated app. I’m curious if you downloaded the latest and it’s working? With codesign + notarizing there should be no issues with gatekeeper.

Soon I’ll update the screensaver portion which manages the isolated app as a screen saver. I’m actively working on it and working through the issues…it’s almost done!

Big thank you! I’m glad to hear that you see the value in this effort. The goal is to make it dead simple to run where anyone can have a working JC experience.

Thanks for the show of support and taking the time to comment!

Hello,

I sincerely appreciate the thoughtful words. Yes, there are good techniques to still run it but as you know they require emulation and whatnot. I’m attempting to modernize the engine so that it’s just another native desktop or web app with zero effort to run.

At least that’s the goal! Thanks again! It’s nice to hear from other Johnny Castaway/Sierra fans!

Thanks, I need to circle back to this project. I actually did several major updates to it and really polished it up.

Thank you!

You are correct, it actually only needs about 12fps per second but the engine I'm using still has VSYNC enabled which tries to keep refreshing at the native speed of your monitor. I will see if I can tune this and bring it down since it's not necessary to run at that speed.

In fact, I just posted another update as of 1 minute ago to optimize the frame drawing even more so even though it's running fast enough.

This is an all-new implementation. The original scenes have been exported as a frame based animation and heavily compressed and bundled into the binary. What I have here is a system that is effectively just doing a random animation play of all the different scenes so it's almost like the original but not quite. I still need to add some timed animations, better sequencing and sound. For example, the holiday stuff.

Oh never mind, I see that you published where the emojis are from so I can get them myself.

Seeing this error when I build: 

internal/assets/images/emojis.go:7:12: pattern emojis/*.png: no matching files found

oh very cool! I’ve been using your makefile as well for a few projects. And constantly referring to your pdf book.

Awesome!

Excellent work! Is this on GitHub?

Simply amazing! What awesome work keeping adventure games like this alive! Definitely will be supporting this project.

I'm actually trying to get this to compile with a language called Zig which integrates well with C...usually.

Question though: my main function written in Zig is interferring with the dos.h file's main function. I'm curious why the main function exists in the dos.h file and if it is completely necessary?

Is dos-like suppose to take over or own the main method?

well done and nice execution!

Speed up the bullets!!!

Thanks,

I think this idea does have legs to go somewhere fun! That said, I'm not sure I will continue to develop it at this time but I certainly may come back to it.

Thx for the kind comments.