09-07-2004, 01:35 PM
Just wanted to give everyone who's interested in antique Diablo-stuff a highly interesting link to the Dark forums.
Trimayne and me have been working for quite a while to make complete listfiles of the pre-release and beta MPQ which was originally Trimaynes idea. Now we are almost finished and I did a first test on what can be accomplished by using these lists.
I merged the pre-release demo and the betaversion including the cracked EXE from the pre-release demo. This gives me a (still highly unstable, but playable) Diablo version that resembles a very very old build of the game (~mid 1996), playable with all three character classes and into deeper levels than the beta! In single player of course.
The rogue has her own graphics (sorceror uses warriors) and I'm currently playing the pre-release Demo (ok...this isn't really the demo anymore as it's capabilities have increased significantly) with my rogue. I'm Character Level11 and on Dungeon level7. There are still a lot of bugs and crashes, but it's really amazing to play this old version, that's older than the beta.
Enough talk, here's the link:
http://64pc224.sshunet.nl/forum/forum_post...sp?TID=471&PN=1
You can follow the research of the lists and in my latest post, get quick instructions on how to build this version by yourself.
I discovered and made this only a couple of hours ago, using the listfiles, so I think there's a LOT space for improvements left.
I am looking forward to see if this will catch the interest of enough people and if it does, to see the things that will be discovered playing and improving this alpha.
Trimayne and me have been working for quite a while to make complete listfiles of the pre-release and beta MPQ which was originally Trimaynes idea. Now we are almost finished and I did a first test on what can be accomplished by using these lists.
I merged the pre-release demo and the betaversion including the cracked EXE from the pre-release demo. This gives me a (still highly unstable, but playable) Diablo version that resembles a very very old build of the game (~mid 1996), playable with all three character classes and into deeper levels than the beta! In single player of course.
The rogue has her own graphics (sorceror uses warriors) and I'm currently playing the pre-release Demo (ok...this isn't really the demo anymore as it's capabilities have increased significantly) with my rogue. I'm Character Level11 and on Dungeon level7. There are still a lot of bugs and crashes, but it's really amazing to play this old version, that's older than the beta.
Enough talk, here's the link:
http://64pc224.sshunet.nl/forum/forum_post...sp?TID=471&PN=1
You can follow the research of the lists and in my latest post, get quick instructions on how to build this version by yourself.
I discovered and made this only a couple of hours ago, using the listfiles, so I think there's a LOT space for improvements left.
I am looking forward to see if this will catch the interest of enough people and if it does, to see the things that will be discovered playing and improving this alpha.