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This change rewrites and simplifies the copyright headers at the top of all source files: * Remove "Emacs style mode select" line; this line was included in the headers for the originally released source files and appears to be to set the file type for old versions of Emacs. I'm not sure entirely why it was required but I don't think it is any more. * Remove "You should have received a copy of..." text from copyright header. This refers to the old 59 Temple Place address where the FSF headquarters used to be located and is no longer correct. Rather than change to the new address, just remove the paragraph as it is superfluous anyway. This fixes #311. * Remove ---- separator lines so that the file headers are barer and more simplified.
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===============================================================================
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Samuel 'Kaiser' Villarreal and James 'Quasar' Haley Present
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C H O C O L A T E
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______________________________._________________________
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/ _____/\__ ___/\______ \ \_ _____/\_ _____/
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\_____ \ | | | _/ || __) | __)_
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/ \ | | | | \ || \ | \
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/_______ / |____| |____|_ /___|\___ / /_______ /
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\/ \/ \/ \/
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===============================================================================
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* What is it? *
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Chocolate Strife is the most accurate and complete recreation of Rogue
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Entertainment's "Strife: Quest for the Sigil." It was created through more than
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four years of reverse engineering effort with the blessings of the original
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programmers of the game.
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* Why? *
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The source code for Strife was lost, which means, unlike the code for all the
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other commercial DOOM-engine games, it cannot be released. The only access we
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have to the code is the binary executable file. Tools such as IDA Pro have
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been employed to disassemble and decompile the executable, which was cross-
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referenced against the Linux DOOM and DOS Heretic sources and painstakingly
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combed over multiple times, instruction-by-instruction, to ensure that the
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resulting Chocolate-Doom-based executable is as close as possible to the
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original.
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* Is it Legal? *
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Reverse engineering is a protected activity so long as the original code is
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not used directly in the product. Due to the vast amount of information lost
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through the process of compilation, and the need to refactor large portions
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of code in order to eliminate non-portable idioms or to adapt them properly to
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Chocolate Doom's framework, the resulting code behaves the same, but is not
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the *same* code.
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In addition, James Monroe and John Carmack have both stated that they have no
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objections to the project. Because they are the original authors of the code,
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and neither Rogue nor their publisher, Velocity, Inc., exist any longer as legal
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entities, this is as close to legal permission as can be obtained.
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The transformed results of the disassembly have been combined with the
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raven-branch version of the Chocolate Doom source port by Simon 'fraggle'
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Howard, with his direct assistance, and have been released for the benefit of
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the community under the GNU General Public License v2.0. See the file "COPYING"
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for more details
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* Is it Perfect? *
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Almost, but not entirely! That's where you come in. Help us by reporting any
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discrepancies you may notice between this executable and the vanilla DOS
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program!
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However, do *not* report any glitch that you can replicate in the vanilla EXE
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as a bug. The point of Chocolate Strife, like Chocolate Doom before it, is to
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be as bug-compatible with the original game as possible. Also be aware that
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some glitches are impossible to compatibly recreate, and wherever this is the
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case, Chocolate Strife has erred on the side of not crashing the program,
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for example by initializing pointers to NULL rather than using them without
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setting a value first.
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* What are some known problems? *
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- The demo version is *not* supported, and there are not any current plans
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to support it in the future, due to the vast number of differences (the
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demo version of Strife is based on a much earlier beta version of Rogue's
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codebase). You should use a commercial Strife IWAD file, preferably of
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version 1.2 or later.
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* How do I use it? *
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From the Run box or a command line, issue a command to Chocolate Strife just
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like you would run Chocolate Doom. Most of the same command line parameters
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are supported.
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voices.wad will be read from the same directory as the IWAD, if it can be
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found. If it is not found, then voices will be disabled just as would happen
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with the vanilla executable. Do not add voices.wad using -file, as that is
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redundant and unnecessary.
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Some new command-line parameters in Chocolate Strife include the following:
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-nograph
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Disables the graphical introduction sequence. -devparm implies this.
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-novoice
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Disables voices even if voices.wad can be found.
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-work
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Enables Rogue's playtesting mode. Automatic godmode, and pressing the
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inventory drop key will toggle noclipping.
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-flip
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Flips player gun graphics. This is buggy, however, because it does not
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reverse the graphics' x offsets (this is an accurate emulation of the
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vanilla engine's behavior).
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-random
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Randomizes the timing and location of item respawns in deathmatch, when
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item respawning is enabled.
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* Copyright *
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY
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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
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A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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See the "COPYING" file for the full license text. The source code for this
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program is available from the same location where you downloaded this package.
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Aside from Chocolate Doom, portions of the code are derived from the Eternity
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Engine, Copyright 2011 Team Eternity, as published under the GNU GPL.
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* New in v2.0 Release *
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+ No infinite loop if menus are up during a screen fade.
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+ Peasant death sound during intro plays at normal volume level.
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+ Torches no longer produce pipping sounds (special thanks to fraggle).
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+ Fade to black occurs at the start of slideshow sequences as in vanilla.
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+ Network game support, with up to 8 players.
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+ No more infinite horizon effect if screen is resized while looking up or
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down.
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+ Corrected default internal Acolyte and Beggar dialogue strings.
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+ Proper save game directory behavior (same as other Choco ports).
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+ Vanilla behavior for crush-and-raise floor types (special thanks to Gez).
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+ Bug fix for all crushing floor types.
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+ Broken power coupling awards erroneous quest flag #32, as in vanilla.
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+ Complete support for emulation of Strife v1.31, including abililty to save
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on multiple save slots.
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+ Telefrags insta-kill as in vanilla (player cannot heal 10000 damage even with
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a full inventory of health items).
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+ Frags are displayed on the keys popup during deathmatch.
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+ Multiplayer chat features, including ability to set player names, now match
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vanilla behavior.
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+ Support for -random parameter.
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+ Vanilla behavior when pressing pause on menus with scroll bars (special
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thanks to fraggle and Alexandre Xavier).
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+ Merged into Chocolate Doom trunk for v2.0 release.
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