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Re:Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of as... by easyThrowaway on Sunday January 07, 2024 @07:39AM (#38900751)
It was Age Of Empires 2, I had a EU copy. I bet there are some interesting stories regarding that port, too.

AFAIK the user interface for the win9x version was drawn using native GDI windows library, and yet the PS2 version, using a completely different rendering framework and architecture, sported the very same appearance, font glitches and all. I wonder if they actually wrote an emulation layer around that.

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Re:Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of as... by markus92 on Sunday January 07, 2024 @09:23AM (#38901402)
The AoE2 PS2 version actually had half-decent USB keyboard and mouse support. Back then USB keyboard/mice were very uncommon (it was all PS/2) but when we tried it, it actually worked.
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