[hipnoizz]

Ahh, memories...

I remember finishing Baldur's Gate 2, then buying Baldur's Gate 1 and then spending a better part of holidays writing a Java app to convert BG1 data so it can be run on the BG2 engine. I was able to go from the start to the end of BG1-on-BG2 just with one glitch when the game could no switch from the custscene to the in-game mode...

There was (is?) a very dedicated community that reverse engineered practically all data formats allowing such projects like mine to be created. Of course there were much more persistent and knowledgeable people who released their projects to the world, so e.g. you could play from the beginning of BG1 to the end of BG2 in one go! Lots of community-provided fixes, modes and total conversions.

From what I know the guy (Avenger) who wrote the better part of GemRB (probably like 95% ;)) got hired by Beamdog to work on enhanced editions of BG1, BG2 and other Infinity Engine games to bring them to modern computers and other devices. Thx for the Linux version! (Even if I don't like Beamdog additions...)

[Lightkey]

It really was a blow to GemRB when he went to Beamdog, as he was almost as active as lynxlynxlynx and worked on the core parts of the engine. 95% is a bit of a stretch though, he is barely in third place in number of commits before the project founder Balrog994, with lynxlynxlynx having five times as many: https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/graphs/contributors

[hipnoizz]

My bad, should check contributions. Probably when I was playing with GemRB Avenger was very active in the project, including their forum. But yeah, now I remember Balrog and lynx as well..