RM2K, BYOND, and Zelda Classic were essential early 2000s internet culture. They got me hooked on software engineering.
This is such a great project. I hope we'll see these become more accessible and live on for a long time.
I didn't use or play Zelda Classic but I was a young kid and later teenager trying to make games in Qbasic, RM2K/3, GameMaker, BYOND, MUD makers, and so on. It was a huge part of my life and inspired a life and passion in IT.
I miss the forums and communities from back then. Gaming World aka gamingw.net was my old haunt. Rival GamingGroundZero was another popular community at the same time. Late 90s early 00s. I had a lot of really close friends that I may never talk to again. That's life though.
Wow, didn’t think I’d see a reference to old RPGMaker forums from way back! What was your old username on GamingW? I’m still in touch with quite a few GW people there via Discord.
So many fond memories of playing weird DBZ games on BYOND!
>Zelda Classic
but did they have a license to make an unauthorized zelda story?
IIRC: There's a similar project for XP as well
Ps. I think a lot of people are getting the wrong idea. An editor IS in progress but it isn't ready yet and most of the focus is currently on compatibility.