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Star Wars: Dark Forces gets quality-of-life improvements thanks to reverse engineered game engine
Dark Forces: Classic Star Wars Shooter Gets 4K Overhaul Thanks to Fan Remaster
A fan reverse-engineered 1995’s ‘Star Wars: Dark Forces’ to make it easier to play on modern systems
By modern standards, 1995’s Dark Forces doesn’t look like much, but it’s rightfully considered one of the more important Star Wars games ever released. Not only did it introduce important technical innovations to the first-person shooter genre, but it also went on to have an outsized effect on later Star Wars canon and spawned the Jedi Knight series. However, like a lot of games from the mid-’90s, revisiting Dark Forces can be challenging. Before today, your best bet was to buy a digital copy of the game from either Steam or GOG and use DOSBox to emulate it on a modern computer. Dark Forces is one of the easier games to get running on DOSBox, but the software can be intimidating if you’ve never used it before.
Enter The Force Engine. The project is primarily the work of LuciusDXL, who spent three years reverse engineering LucasArts’ proprietary Jedi Engine to make the two games that were built with it — Dark Forces and 1997’s Outlaws — easier to run on modern systems. With version 1.0, TFE is compatible with both the GOG and Steam versions of Dark Forces. Once you’ve installed the software, it will automatically detect the game’s executable, and you can start playing without needing to do things like adjusting cycles in DOSBox.
What’s more, it adds a handful of features to make it easier to appreciate Dark Forces in 2022. One big addition is support for modern widescreen resolutions, so you don’t have to play the game at its original 320 by 200 resolution. Other optional quality-of-life improvements include full mouselook support and a new save system that allows you to make quicksaves. If you’re a fan of Outlaws, LuciusDXL says they’re working on adding support for the cult classic shooter as part of TFE’s version 2.0 release. While there’s no release date for that yet, LuciusDXL estimates it won’t take them nearly as long now that they’ve gone through the process of reverse-engineering Dark Forces.
John Cena And Jason Momoa Join Forces For Action-Comedy Film Killer Vacation
While Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson are beefing over who has the bigger ego, other Fast Saga cast members are making friends, and now John Cena and Jason Momoa are set to star in an action-comedy called Killer Vacation from Warner Bros., Deadline reports.
Momoa and Cena met on the set of Fast 9 and Fast X according to Variety, and they must’ve hit it off, because they’re going to be spending a lot more time together. The details of the film are under wraps, but sources have compared the film to blockbuster action movies like True Lies. The script comes from Mark and Brian Gunn, James Gunn’s cousin and brother respectively. Peter Safran and John Rickard will produce the film. The deal for this film was reportedly set before Safran and James Gunn took the DC Studios throne at Warner Bros.
Momoa and Cena have not previously appeared on-screen together unless you count Momoa’s uncredited cameo in Cena’s Peacemaker series. Both actors are active in the current iteration of Warner Bros.’ DC universe. Momoa has appeared in a few films as Aquaman, while Cena played Peacemaker first in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, followed by the ten-episode Peacemaker series.
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SAS: Who Dares Wins shake-up as hunky new special forces soldier joins line-up
TV’s toughest reality show SAS: Who Dares Wins is getting a new location – and a hunky new star.
The Channel 4 show is taking its next line-up of recruits into the world’s most unforgiving jungle, in Thung Ui, North Vietnam.
There’s also a shake-up when it comes to the terrifying staff putting the recruits through their paces.
Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham is getting promoted to the role of Chief Instructor – with new arrival Chris Oliver joining as a new member of the staff team.
They will be joined on the ‘DS’ unit commanding the recruits by Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox and American Rudy Reyes.
Former US Navy Seal Remi Adeleke, who joined with Rudy last series, quit the programme after less than a year in October.
Former Special Forces operator Chris, 40, stamped down on hopes he might be the ‘nice’ one in the group as he was announced last night.
He vowed: “I will bring a hard-hitting intensity to the SAS: Who Dares Wins DS, being a fiery character with a very passionate approach to military training, with respect being at the forefront of everything I do.
“The values I intend to instil in the recruits, as part of the DS, have been forged on operations where we have lost good operators.
“So they had better be under no illusions – anyone who doesn’t play by the rules will pay the price.”
American Rudy was more upbeat, saying cheerfully: “Brace yourselves for impact, ladies and gents!
“We have the roughest, toughest most carnivorous DS lineup! B Squadron bad ass Billy Billingham is leading the course for this jungle series of SAS: Who Dares Wins.
“My man has the skills, wisdom and knowledge of jungle survival like no operator I have ever known.
“So much respect for Chris and legends Billy and Foxy, so standby for a hardcore SAS: Who Dares Wins series!”
Billy added: “Having been a DS on actual military SAS selection and Chief Instructor at the British Army Jungle Warfare Training School in Brunei, there is nobody better placed than myself to lead the recruits through this treacherous environment.
“I’m looking forward to challenging and encouraging the new recruits. However, I will not be accepting any excuses – this will be the toughest course to date.”
SAS: Who Dares Wins returns in January with six new episodes.
It will show 20 ordinary men and women taking on the punishing jungle phase of SAS selection.
Spacesuit Malfunction Forces Cancelation of ISS Spacewalk
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were unable to perform a scheduled maintenance task outside the ISS today due to a malfunctioning coolant system on a Russian-built Orlan spacesuit.
The Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after over two years in space
The Space Force’s mysterious X-37B spaceplane landed back on Earth after spending a record-breaking two and a half years (908 days) in orbit. It landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, November 12th at 5:22AM ET, marking its sixth successful mission so far.
While the agency is pretty tight-lipped as to what exactly the Boeing-built spaceplane does, it did reveal that it deployed the FalconSat-8 developed by the US Air Force Academy in October 2021. This small satellite carried five experimental payloads and is still in orbit now. It hosted the Naval Research Laboratory’s photovoltaic radiofrequency antenna module as well, which is designed to convert solar rays into microwave energy and “transmit power to the…
AMC and Zoom Join Forces to Make Your Worst Nightmare a Reality
As if conference calls weren’t enough, AMC and Zoom are partnering to bring massive video meetings to the movie theater. Businesses can rent out three-hour blocks at select AMC locations starting next year. And if the boss is okay with it, you can even watch a movie after the conference call.