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Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub (github.com)
53 points by dewey 2 days ago
5 comments
romandr 1 minute ago
This game was on my cousin's dad PC about 20 years ago. There were no name on the icon, it was just titled "war" (assumingly by cousin). Later I got Arma: Armed Assault on Steam, when all my friends played Arma 2/DayZ and I couldn't, because my PC was a potato. Spent hours on sandbox editor making big warfare.
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fdgfgfvffdv 10 minutes ago
Operation Flashpoint (for anyone who bought it on release back in the day).

It was later turned into the Arma series and re-released with this name to fit the series branding.

I've played them all - this was the best of the lot IMHO.

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klaussilveira 2 days ago
Not only Bohemia Interactive released the code, they cleaned it up and ported to Windows x64 and Linux x64. That's amazing.
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beaker52 1 hour ago
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Bohemia Interactive. Their games have always had a charming “designed by a software engineer” feel, which I appreciate.

Also, Operation Flashpoint was the reason I learnt to code and ended up having a career a software engineer, so I owe BI for that. My first real foray into programming was writing scripts, specifically to trigger unguided bomb releases from planes onto moving ground targets using some shoddy trigonometry as a 14 year old kid.

I have a lot of fond memories of that game. I still remember being awed by some of the mods created by this guy: https://kegetys.fi His name has lived rent free in my head for 2 decades now. Legend.

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wuschel 20 minutes ago
Amazing. I applaud BIS for doing such a clean open source release. So many things to learn from!

I wish other game studios would release their software so many years after release.

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felixg3 1 hour ago
Ahh, another interesting post… and it’s Dewey again.
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