with the dos map editor only, it's basically required to have all these
to be able to edit maps and rebuild the 'pics.dtf' resource files to
actually use your edited maps with the way this version of ack3d works
with the timer speedup call left in, it feels much closer (speed-wise)
to the original watcom fdemo executable from the book cd. but still not
quite a perfect match in my opinion
i didn't recognize _getds from anywhere so assumed it was something
commented out for a reason, but turns out that it was part of the
original modplayer code (which was originally written for watcom
anyway). _getds is an internal function from the watcom standard
libraries.
i'm convinced that the modplayer doesn't work as-is. start/stop of bg
music was commented out in the newer borland sources, and neither the
borland 'nor watcom fdemo executable on the book's cd ever played
bg music for me. enabling it (with the mod file present) causes some
crashes.
sources taken from book CD:
ack_lib -> /ACK/WIN/ACK_LIB
fdemo -> /ACK/DOS/FDEMO/SOURCE (and /ACK/DOS/BORLAND as needed)
mall -> /ACK/DOS/MALL/SOURCE (and /ACK/DOS/BORLAND as needed)
some source files were missing for the demo projects and needed to be
copied from /ACK/DOS/BORLAND (as indicated above)
Gered