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Jazz2 Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
Author : generichuman
Score : 135 points
Date : 2023-08-20 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| tylerjl wrote:
| I loved this game growing up, I'm definitely going to give this a
| try.
|
| As a minor observation, I'm pretty (pleasantly) surprised that
| the project provides a NixOS package for the application. As
| somebody who tends to flit between Arch, Fedora, and NixOS,
| seeing packages for NixOS before Fedora availability is a very
| surprising signal in terms of Linux distribution popularity.
| anfractuosity wrote:
| Looks very cool, fingers crossed multiplayer support gets added
| at some point (noticed it says 'Multiplayer is temporarily
| removed in version 1.0.0.' on the website).
| Hydraulix989 wrote:
| Looks like their Apache server is struggling
| Aachen wrote:
| Responds very fast for me! With an error page. I guess
| something else fell over and Apache is the component that's
| holding up here ;)
| voisin wrote:
| Ok, now I just need Earthworm Jim, Commander Keen, Raptor Call of
| the Shadows, and Uncharted Waters and my childhood will be
| successfully recreated.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Raptor is getting a remaster by the original author. It's
| taking him a while as it seems to be a side hustle.
| dvasdekis wrote:
| Unrelated blast from the past, it looks like Fragile Allegiance
| is getting a spiritual successor:
| https://www.fragilecontinuum.com/
| NetOpWibby wrote:
| I have fond memories of playing Jazz Jackrabbit...and Commander
| Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Secret Agent Man, Jill of the
| Jungle, and so on. Epic Games and Apogee were the logos I
| remember seeing most often.
|
| OMG! Jetpack from Adept Software is still available?!
| https://www.adeptsoftware.com/jetpack/
| dmk wrote:
| This is great! This brings me back to my childhood, I loved this
| game, really looking forward to trying it out.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Tried this for recent DosGameClub and it's not quite perfect yet,
| though a huge step up from the original if you cannot stand how
| zoomed in the vanilla game looks.
|
| Similarly OpenJazz allows playing Jazz1. It has even more quirks
| than Resurrection, and can similarly allow zooming out with
| higher resolutions
| w3abhishek wrote:
| Apache server isn't able to handle it.
| Aachen wrote:
| Apache is what's serving the error page. It's whatever is
| behind Apache that is failing
|
| I've had an Apache server running on a decade old laptop on the
| HN front page, serving a custom PHP+Mariadb blog without
| caching, works just fine. It's big projects like WordPress that
| reliably go down from more than a handful of visitors per
| minute with bursts to a few in one second, if you don't have a
| caching layer that turns it into the equivalent of a static
| page generator
| salgorithm wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230820203915/http://deat.tk/ja...
| dottjt wrote:
| Although I never played Jazz Jackrabbit, I remember in our town
| there was this guy (I think he was a picture frame-maker) and I
| think my dad was friends with him.
|
| I remember going downstairs into the work area and I remember he
| was playing Jazz Jackrabbit on his old computer, and I remember
| thinking that this game must be epic.
|
| Anyway, random story. It just evokes that memory for some reason.
| gcampos wrote:
| Technically you were right, the game is Epic ;)
| henriquez wrote:
| Hell yeah! Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was amazing and I always thought it
| was sad it became abandonware.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I've always been curious... are there concrete definitions of
| "abandonware" in the various major jurisdictions? Or is it just
| a loose concept that remains legally dubious?
|
| I feel like "Adopt an Abandonware" would be a pretty great
| source of meaningful, educational, and productive projects for
| devs with extra cycles or looking to refine skills.
| fruckyt wrote:
| [dead]
| qbasic_forever wrote:
| There's mention of it in the DMCA if I remember correctly. It
| says DRM can be cracked if something isn't available to be
| sold anymore or something similar:
| https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dmca-game-preservation-
| exemp...
| jsheard wrote:
| Does it count as abandonware if you can buy it on GOG today?
|
| https://www.gog.com/en/game/jazz_jackrabbit_collection
|
| https://www.gog.com/en/game/jazz_jackrabbit_2_collection
|
| Maybe it was abandoned for a time until GOG picked it up.
| leni536 wrote:
| Same. I tried playing it on wine, but it was always a bit
| unstable for me and crashed. I never knew that there was a FOSS
| reimplementation.
|
| edit: Looks like this project started in 2017, but it made
| leaps in the last year.
|
| http://deat.tk/jazz2/release-notes
| egman_ekki wrote:
| Anyone tried running it on SteamDeck?
| gambiting wrote:
| Regular Jazz 2 runs great on the steamdeck btw :-)
| egonschiele wrote:
| I wish Jazz had been more popular. I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and
| 2, and I believe there were plans to make a third, but they
| decided it wouldn't sell enough copies. If anyone here can
| recommend platformers similar to Jazz that run on a Mac, I'd love
| to play them. I never got into shooters or 3D games, but always
| enjoyed platformers like Mario and Contra, and Jazz felt perfect
| for me.
| system2 wrote:
| I thought it was popular. Nearly all my childhood friends
| played it.
| blibble wrote:
| a good chunk of the third exists and is "playable"
|
| it's not very good though (except the music, Alexander Brandon
| is still amazing)
| dale_glass wrote:
| Oh, thanks for that, I didn't know it existed. Found this:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gckYADZp0A
|
| Yeah, it's interesting, but I think it's not a huge loss.
| Early 3D games have aged very badly, while many from the 2D
| era are still perfectly playable. So a higher res 2D followup
| might have actually been better.
| pawelduda wrote:
| FYI, the original game can be purchased for few dollars and runs
| fine on Windows with coop and all - tested not so long ago and
| had a blast playing it
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