reverse engineering group excercise

[d0c]

would anybody be interested to work on reverse engineering of Civilization 1 (aka Classic) using Ghidra on a shared project? I would like to be able to annotate and understand most of the codebase; possibly even create compilable source code (CivOne doesn't crack it sorry and I figured it will take me 10 years to do it myself.
we can start either with Civ unpacked exe or better; I got a memory dump from Dosbox which includes SAV and MAP structures as well as code normally not reachable
just debating if I should spend the time setting up Ghidra server.

 

[Skybuck]

My advise would be to split up the executable/reverse engineered source code as much as possible and then create tasks/work. So that participants can give it a go.
For example code sections of 100 lines or even 10 lines or 15 or 20 or so... to keep work small.

 

[Tancretus]

Any further updates on this?

 

[rahorvat]

Well now I see that you started to do exactly as I am doing now. Sorry, but your post got lost in a wormhole and I was not active then on this forum... otherwise I would volunteered to help you!
Now I'm doing the rewrite from assembly to C#/JavaScript (instead of C)

 

[Blake00]

Hah I was just about to say "omg not another one" haha but I see it was 2019 and I somehow missed this too my focus was more on Civ2 that year. I see @d0c is still around.. How far did you get in the end? If still interested in such things you might wanna check out Rahorvat's thread:

OpenCiv1 Project - Open source rewrite of the original Civilization 1 Game designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley in year 1991

OpenCiv1 Project news OpenCiv1 uses Avalonia UI framework and is OS independent. It is currently compatible with desktops: Windows, Linux and MacOS. The game logic is based on original DOS Civilization game version 475.05 disassembly. The project has progressed significantly since first...

forums.civfanatics.com

 

[rahorvat]

Hah I was just about to say "omg not another one" haha but I see it was 2019 and I somehow missed this too my focus was more on Civ2 that year. I see @d0c is still around.. How far did you get in the end? If still interested in such things you might wanna check out Rahorvat's thread:

OpenCiv1 Project - Open source rewrite of the original Civilization 1 Game designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley in year 1991

OpenCiv1 Project news OpenCiv1 uses Avalonia UI framework and is OS independent. It is currently compatible with desktops: Windows, Linux and MacOS. The game logic is based on original DOS Civilization game version 475.05 disassembly. The project has progressed significantly since first...

forums.civfanatics.com

Yes,
The @d0c did visit my thread, that's why I responded on his from 2019. His idea was something I'm doing now...
But you have to be the driving force otherwise you get no results. Anyway, no one volunteered to help me yet !?

Blake00 Could you please update the WELCOME TO THE SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION 1 FORUM - IMPORTANT LINKS & INFORMATION page to reflect that it's not the Win port, but DOS port?

 

[Blake00]

Ahh he already found it.. my bad. Am always trying to network the fan projects and get talented folks chatting with one another to increase their chances of success haha.

Ah yes.. I forgot about updating that. Have switched its description from civwin to civdos.