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Old March 2nd, 2024, 05:28 PM
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Default Re: One feature request...

No it cant be selectable since it would be a case of putting in new code for a dialogue box instead of a simple inline DOS string routine in thousands of different places in the code. And also writing that dialogue box code as well. Oh, and code that would need a live mouse interface instead of the standard keyboard I/O, so there would need to be a separate mouse message pump type handling routine (as in windows loops) that would need to be put in with some way of handling two fundamentally alien coding paradigms.

The games are MSDOS games, ported over to work on Windows 20 plus years ago. They arent windows code with a message pump, that would require a total rewrite, which just aint gonna happen. There are 6 megabytes of C++ in the game development folder, not counting header files or resouce files etc.

Plus, as don already pointed out we detested the stupid "in yer face" dialogue boxes that SP3 brought in the first place and so we deliberately used the SP2 codebase to develop from. So that's another level of "aint gonna happen" right there.
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