Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.
A coder going by the tag of sirlemonhead, released PCExhumed which they did with EDuke32. They said it's a "reverse engineering of the version of the game that is considered the most complete - the 1996 retail release of Exhumed". The code to run it has also been pulled into NBlood, giving another easy way to run it. You can see a video of it in action below:
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I have vague memories of this one, as I owned a Sega Saturn and it was one of the few games we had for it but it didn't really stick at the time for me as I was too busy playing Command & Conquer.
Sadly, the game isn't available to buy easily anywhere. Perhaps GOG.com can do their usual revival magic to get it on their store to give people an easy place to get the data files. It's just great to see another classic game not completely lost to history, as it can now live on future modern operating systems.
Hat tip to RTheren.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteI have this bookmarked for a long time. How did you compile it? It would be great to be able to test it and compare with PCExhumed. Anyone else have some tips on that?
git clone https://github.com/nukeykt/NBlood.git
cd NBlood
makeThat is all :-)
Further instructions here.
Looks like a crosshair in PCExhumed is in the TODO list.
To rip music files you need the Mixed Mode CD of Exhumed.
If you ever made a NRG file (proprietary format) of the original CD for some reason :), you can mount it in Daemon Tools (Windows) to access the audio files. Not sure how to do that in Linux though...
Quoting: FaalhaasIf you ever made a NRG file (proprietary format) of the original CD for some reason :), you can mount it in Daemon Tools (Windows) to access the audio files. Not sure how to do that in Linux though...With cdemu and its GUI gcdemu.
Quoting: ageresWith cdemu and its GUI gcdemu.Thanks. I have successfully mounted an NRG file using CDemu. It pops up an audio CD shown as wave files.
The GUI version immediately quits, but I don't really need it. Just like I will never need Daemon Tools anymore. :) I see that tool has become more evil the last couple of years with ads/subscriptions.
Quoting: ageresBut Powerslave EX works fine in Wine. All I had to do to run it was installing 32-bit openal.
So you have a compiled Windows version? As some years ago the dev removed the files due to legal issues.
Quoting: robvvQuoting: CyrilI have this bookmarked for a long time. How did you compile it? It would be great to be able to test it and compare with PCExhumed. Anyone else have some tips on that?
git clone https://github.com/nukeykt/NBlood.git
cd NBlood
make
That is all :-)
Further instructions here.
No I meant: how to compile Powerslave EX. ^_^
Last edited by Cyril on 4 January 2020 at 5:05 pm UTC
Quoting: CyrilSo you have a compiled Windows version? As some years ago the dev removed the files due to legal issues.He did, but I had downloaded it before and still keep it.
Quoting: ageresQuoting: CyrilSo you have a compiled Windows version? As some years ago the dev removed the files due to legal issues.He did, but I had downloaded it before and still keep it.
I think I did the same at the time but then removed it... :S:
So thank you!
Thought... I would love to compile the Linux version! :P
Edit: And yes the Windows version of Powerslave EX works perfectly fine in Wine!
Last edited by Cyril on 7 January 2020 at 2:45 pm UTC
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