Laastine / systemshock

Shockolate - Same great System Shock, new great taste.

Shockolate - System Shock, but cross platform!

Based on the source code for PowerPC released by Night Dive Studios, Incorporated.

GENERAL NOTES

Shockolate is a cross platform source port of the System Shock source code that was released, using SDL2. This runs well on OSX, Linux, and Windows right now, with some runtime issues to sort out.

The end goal for this project is something like what Chocolate Doom is for Doom: an experience that closely mimics the original, but portable and with some quality of life improvements - and mod support!

Working so far:

• Gameplay!
• Mouse and keyboard input
• Software 3D / 2D rendering
• Physics
• Saving and loading
• Sound effects
• Basic midi music, if available
• Mod support!

Not working:

• Music
  • SDL_Mixer can't play the multi track XMI midi files, need to find another solution for those
  • There is basic midi music support if there are .mid files in /res/music/ like thm0.mid. Try this example music pack made of Chicajo midi's
• Video Files / Audiologs
  • Need to revive the old movie rendering code in AFile

Compiling / Running

Prerequisites

• SDL2, 32 bit
• SDL2_mixer, 32 bit
• Original cd-rom or SS:EE assets in a res/data folder next to the executable
  • Floppy disk assets are an older version that we can't load currently

Building SDL

Linux/Mac

You can use the included build_deps.sh shell script to build the required versions of SDL2 / SDL2_mixer. VOC support was broken until recently in SDL_mixer, so for sound effects to work you'll probably need to build it from the latest sources like that script does.

Windows

See the Windows readme.

Build and run

cmake .
make systemshock
./systemshock

Modding Support

Shockolate supports loading mods and full on fan missions. Just point the executable at a mod file or folder and the game will load it in. So far mod loading supports additional .res and .dat files for resources and missions respectively.

Run a fan mission from a folder:

./systemshock /Path/To/My/Mission

Run a fan mission from specific files:

./systemshock my-archive.dat my-strings.res