shithub: choc

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 been employed to disassemble and decompile the executable, which was cross-

 referenced against the Linux DOOM and DOS Heretic sources and painstakingly

 combed over multiple times, instruction-by-instruction, to ensure that the

-resulting Chocolate-Doom-based executable is as close as possible to the

+resulting Chocolate Doom-based executable is as close as possible to the

 original.

 * Is it Legal? *

-Reverse engineering is a protected activity so long as the original code is

-not used directly in the product. Due to the vast amount of information lost

-through the process of compilation, and the need to refactor large portions

-of code in order to eliminate non-portable idioms or to adapt them properly to

-Chocolate Doom's framework, the resulting code behaves the same, but is not

-the *same* code.

+Chocolate Strife was originally reverse-engineered from the DOS Strife

+binaries. Although reverse engineering is legally a protected activity, this

+nonetheless left some open questions about its legal status.

-In addition, James Monroe and John Carmack have both stated that they have no

-objections to the project. Because they are the original authors of the code,

-and neither Rogue nor their publisher, Velocity, Inc., exist any longer as legal

-entities, this is as close to legal permission as can be obtained.

+In 2014, a new commercial release of Strife was published (Strife: Veteran

+Edition) based on the Chocolate Strife code, and developed by the authors of

+Chocolate Strife under commercial license. The release of Strife: Veteran

+Edition, along with its GPL-licensed source code, constitutes tacit approval

+for the legal status of Chocolate Strife by its current copyright holder.

-The transformed results of the disassembly have been combined with the

-raven-branch version of the Chocolate Doom source port by Simon 'fraggle'

-Howard, with his direct assistance, and have been released for the benefit of

-the community under the GNU General Public License v2.0. See the file "COPYING"

-for more details

 * Is it Perfect? *

 Almost, but not entirely! That's where you come in. Help us by reporting any

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 Aside from Chocolate Doom, portions of the code are derived from the Eternity

 Engine, Copyright 2011 Team Eternity, as published under the GNU GPL.

-* New in v2.0 Release *

-+ No infinite loop if menus are up during a screen fade.

-+ Peasant death sound during intro plays at normal volume level.

-+ Torches no longer produce pipping sounds (special thanks to fraggle).

-+ Fade to black occurs at the start of slideshow sequences as in vanilla.

-+ Network game support, with up to 8 players.

-+ No more infinite horizon effect if screen is resized while looking up or

-  down.

-+ Corrected default internal Acolyte and Beggar dialogue strings.

-+ Proper save game directory behavior (same as other Choco ports).

-+ Vanilla behavior for crush-and-raise floor types (special thanks to Gez).

-+ Bug fix for all crushing floor types.

-+ Broken power coupling awards erroneous quest flag #32, as in vanilla.

-+ Complete support for emulation of Strife v1.31, including abililty to save

-  on multiple save slots.

-+ Telefrags insta-kill as in vanilla (player cannot heal 10000 damage even with

-  a full inventory of health items).

-+ Frags are displayed on the keys popup during deathmatch.

-+ Multiplayer chat features, including ability to set player names, now match

-  vanilla behavior.

-+ Support for -random parameter.

-+ Vanilla behavior when pressing pause on menus with scroll bars (special

-  thanks to fraggle and Alexandre Xavier).

-+ Merged into Chocolate Doom trunk for v2.0 release.