1 OpenBOR (anallyst edition)
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6 this git-repository has both the anallyst version of
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7 OpenBOR (branch master) and the "official" version
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8 from Chronocrash (former Lavalit) from SVN in branch svn.
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10 The anallyst edition was forked off from SVN revision
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11 3233 and was kept in sync with lavalit until rev 3318.
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14 the anallyst version is heavily optimized, debloated and
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15 debugged and runs much faster than the lavalit version.
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16 it has also a lot of platform-specific junk stripped off.
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17 unlike the official version, this version is able to play
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18 extracted mods directly from a directory.
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19 this makes it much easier to debug and improve them.
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21 the lavalit version has more bugs and some new features
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22 which are not in mainstream usage.
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23 some of the new features that were encountered in real-world
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24 mods were backported to the anallyst version.
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25 the anallyst edition should be able to play 99% of available
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26 mods, after unpacking and repacking them with borpak from this
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30 the history of this git repo lasts back until SVN REV 3020,
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31 at which point the repo was split into 2 parts.
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32 the official svn repo is broken and it is not possible to
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33 retrieve earlier commits.
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34 the history was slightly edited with automatic tools to
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35 remove all embedded binaries
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36 (except of the required resources like .png's).
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37 the original had a lot of cruft in the tools directory
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38 (entire tarballs of toolchains, svn-setup.exe, etc.)
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39 adding these to this git repo would make it about 100x bigger
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40 and thus slower to use, so they were omitted.
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41 also automatically generated changes to version.h, meta.xml
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42 and Info.plist were removed from the commits (version numbers
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43 generated by make), as those just make it harder to see the
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44 relevant information.
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53 an executable of the name "OpenBOR" will be created.
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55 possible flags to make:
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57 NO_GL=1 BUILD_DEBUG=1 make #will build without opengl but with debugging support
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59 OpenBOR directory layout:
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60 -> OpenBOR (executable)
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61 -> Paks/ (put paks or directories with extracted paks)
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69 OpenBOR is a continuation of the Beats Of Rage 2D game engine, which was originally
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70 created by http://www.senileteam.com.
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72 this is a fork of "official OpenBOR" (i.e. from lavalit forums)
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73 by rofl0r aka anallyst, former "OpenBOR team" member.
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75 his work on OpenBOR started back with SVN rev ~2900.
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76 he left the lavalit team due to internal differences after SVN rev 3318 and
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77 started his own fork.
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79 instead of adding features over features, it is the intent to strip off
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80 unnecesary stuff and simplify things,
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81 while staying compatible to the existing mods and POSIX.
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83 a possible idea is to add lua scripting support at some point in the future,
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84 and the ugly and slow "C script" interpreter code can be removed and the
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85 good mods be converted to lua.
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87 Current Situation/Comparison with "official" OpenBOR
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90 since the commit tagged "pak-change" the internal layout of
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91 .pak files has changed to simplify things.
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92 filenames are stored in unix fashion (/) and lowercase only.
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93 to make old pak files compatible, they have to be "converted":
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95 extract them using the borpak tool in tools/borpak,
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96 then repack them using the same tool.
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97 this results in a fresh pak in the required format.
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99 this change made it possible to use extracted paks in a directory.
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100 you can simply create a directory in the Paks dir for each game
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101 (i.e. Paks/MyGame/data/)
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104 OpenBOR (anallyst edition) x64 binary : 750 KB
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105 OpenBOR (lavalit edition, rev 3320) x64 binary : 1250 KB
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106 OpenBOR (lavalit edition, rev 3600+) x64 binary : probably 1.5 MB+
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109 anallysts work on OpenBOR made for huge speed improvements in loading times.
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110 most mods now load in an instant and took several seconds (up to minutes (!))
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112 this improvements have gone into the lavalit version as well, but some team
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113 members there prefer seeing a moving loading bar between levels over instant
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114 loading, so some of the optimisations has been removed by them.
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115 it's likely that the lavalit version will get slower and slower over time.
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117 this fork is currently the fastest openbor version available.
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120 some upstream features have been ported so mods relying on OpenBOR 36xx features
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121 should work exactly as intended.
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123 compatibility to older mods should be even better as the lavalit version
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124 as some bugs have been fixed that prevented some mods to work with anything
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125 newer than rev 28xx.
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128 support for any non-posix compatible game console has been removed.
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129 this fork builds well on any posix compatible platform that has ports
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130 of libogg/vorbis and SDL.
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131 this means it should build on any linux based device, *BSD, etc.
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132 possibly even mingw.
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133 we're taking the stance that instead of buying a commercial game console to
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134 crack it for homebrew usage, you should rather buy products that are intended
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135 for homebrewers and thus support the companies producing them.
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