X-COM series

mm44 · Post by **mm44** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:35 pm

I want to ask about TBS "X-COM: Enemy Unknown" and "X-COM: Terror From the Deep" - can they be ported... in some future?

It's amazing games, hope all of you know them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM_(series)

md5 · Post by **md5** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:01 pm

mm44 wrote:I want to ask about TBS "X-COM: Enemy Unknown" and "X-COM: Terror From the Deep" - can they be ported... in some future? It's amazing games, hope all of you know them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM_(series)

They are not 2D point'n'click adventure games, which is what ScummVM mainly focuses on, so its not likely to happen, I'm afraid

mm44 · Post by **mm44** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:44 pm

md5 wrote:They are not 2D point'n'click adventure games, which is what ScummVM mainly focuses on, so its not likely to happen, I'm afraid

2d - yes
point'n'click - yes
adventure - no, it's tactical game. but absolutely action/turn based
I see no big differences in playing between X-COM and Gobliins by example...

md5 · Post by **md5** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:53 pm

mm44 wrote:
md5 wrote:They are not 2D point'n'click adventure games, which is what ScummVM mainly focuses on, so its not likely to happen, I'm afraid
2d - yes
point'n'click - yes
adventure - no, it's tactical game. but absolutely action/turn based
I see no big differences in playing between X-COM and Gobliins by example...

Of course there is a huge difference. Gobliins is an adventure/puzzle game. X-Com is a tactical strategy turn based game. Thus, it is out of scope of ScummVM, which focuses mainly on ADVENTURE games (with a few exceptions, which are games that are based on adventure game engines, like the Elvira series). So the answer is again, no. You may want to have a look at UFO2000: http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/

Edit: Also, this question has been asked in the past, do a search in the forums

mm44 · Post by **mm44** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:30 pm

Thanks for answering. I'm not looking Windows port, Symbian is better for me

But anyway thanks

ovvldc · Post by **ovvldc** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:15 am

I suggest you use DosBox. It has a Symbian version.

Best wishes,
Oscar

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:16 pm

ovvldc wrote:I suggest you use DosBox. It has a Symbian version.

Best wishes,
Oscar

Huh? It does? Since when?

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:15 pm

Since February or so. There was a story on OSNews on how it allows you to run Win 3.1 on a Symbian phone. See http://s60dosbox.sourceforge.net/

Freddo · Post by **Freddo** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:46 pm

I would absolutely love to see a portable reverse-engineered engine for the first two X-COM games some day. Not likely it will happen, and I have no clue whatsoever how to do it, but it would be extremly nice

Although there are these threads; X-COM 1, X-COM 2 and even Albion. But I don't have a GP2X.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:36 pm

Well, it won't happen as part of this project.

Note that there is an open source remake of X-Com 1: http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/

Freddo · Post by **Freddo** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:45 pm

fingolfin wrote:Well, it won't happen as part of this project.

Yeah, I know. I meant as a standalone project, like OpenTTD

OpenXCOM?

fingolfin wrote:Note that there is an open source remake of X-Com 1: http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/

Yeah, but it doesn't have any single player part. It just focus on the human vs human multiplayer.

mick0305 · Post by **mick0305** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:12 pm

both those xcom games had patches made for them, and i can run them on xp
so as opposed to ufo2000, you can play through the single player game

Freddo · Post by **Freddo** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:29 pm

Heh, there's actually a project called OpenXcom now. Very cool, I hope they reach their goal!

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