Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code
by ThatPlayer on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:28PM
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Even the original Doom source code release was the Linux source code because the Dos version of the game uses a 3rd party audio library, DMX.
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code
by dcrazy on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:36PM
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I believe DMX was also used for Descent, and the company successfully shut down open source projects to reverse engineer the file format. Interplay was also extremely protective of their full-motion video codec, which only got well-documented after the release of Baldur’s Gate II.