I looked at it a while back and noped out pretty quick. Last time I checked everything is so jankily interconnected that even seemingly minor refactors can turn into a big project, and I can't imagine it changed too much since then.
for some the mere fact that that content exists at all puts them at giant legal risk if its found by a bad actor. If they provided a regionized/legalized version of the game where such content was removed at the compilation stage and could not be accessed at all because it doesn't exist on disk to begin with then I would give them a chance.
Not really, I was trying to make a joke on her being dead and that if my memory is holding she did something similar in the past where she pretended she hadn't missed multiple written scheduled milestones and that was instead bringing an extra unscheduled update for 'insert holiday here'.
Make the entire thing in Assembly so it runs equally as well in a futuretech quantum supercomputer as a Venezuelan cardboard box with hopes and dreams.
I imagine most here might already know this fun tidbit, but Rollercoaster Tycoon was coded in Assembly with a smidge of C. It's the reason that game ran so well at the time, and it meant the developer didn't have to pay much in the way of licensing fees.
Well, I was trying to get the 0.4.9 Version of LT running on Linux - it's such a pain in the booty, I can say!
Greetings fellow arch userWell, I was trying to get the 0.4.9 Version of LT running on Linux - it's such a pain in the booty, I can say!
I'll try this "Fork" of LT - LoLT I'd call it - and see if that works better with Standard-JRE on Linux - or if it needs the Temurin JDK, too (if anyone already tried this, please let me know).
Yet, if this version turns out to actually run on Linux Distros without as much of a hassle as the original LT, I think Inno might need to change something in her rigid-minded development process or licensing (make it OpenSource entirely so other devs can contribute and mod whatever they want maybe?)
Also: Isn't "Fort of Chains" also similarly "flexible" as this Game, yet a Browser Game? I knew it reminded me of some Game - and I think that's pretty much it. Yet, FoC got a little too complex quickly after playing it quite a while. It's really nice stories and quests/missions, too, but it was getting more (stressful) "micro-managing-work" than pleasant enjoyment at some point.
Since I only got so far with LT, I can't really say how it is with this Game yet - so far I like the progression pretty well since it's not as overwhelming as FoC was for me...
So, I'll check whether or not LoLT runs natively on (in my case Arch-based) Linux and if so, I'll really celebrate it and smack Inno's booty with the fact, that her rigidity costs her Game players (even though I somewhat doubt she'd care since most folks are still using Windows sadly - which might change when Windows gets more and more intrusive privacy-wise and Linux keeps getting more and more user-friendly [see Steamdeck and other Linux-based Handhelds for reference]).
Cheers and thanks so much again for mentioning this "fork" of the Game basically - it sounds from what you're writing, that the dev of that somewhat "updated the Code" to be compatible with more recent versions of Java...did I get that right?
- I mean, I'm using it with the most recent Temurin Java Development Kit and it works like a charm on Windows at least - not sure if I can get it to run on my Arch-based Linux Distro yet, since someone on the LT Discord Tech Support told me, that the Linux-JDKs don't come with JavaFX, which is obviously needed to play the .jar-Version there.
LoLT's linux version just uses openjdk instead of Oracle's java. A while back I documented how I got vanilla LT working. Hasn't changed much: 
jre17-openjdk and java17-openjfx to run the game, java17-openjdk and maven to build all versions of the game.Someone should totally make an AI whose only purpose is to grab code and just rewrite it in straight up machine code (and vice-versa) so every program is just stupidly well optimized.
I think the framework isn't ideal to be quite honest. From what I've gathered from the forums the game is logging a bunch of characters and stats that have no impact on the immediate scene and they don't do anything in the background either. So the game is bogged down by all this.
Hotter take: Remake the game in Rust.
That take is ice water. This game and the memes inspired me to learn Rust.
Hottest take: Make the game
I could be wrong, but I think Iron Oxide is one of the components of electronics. so I guess the answer to your question is... a lot?
careful now, don't make me get my pitchfork
