Another World JS

This is a Javascript (HTML5) port of the game Another World designed by Eric Chahi.

Internals

This port behaves the same as the original executable and interprets the game bytecode.

The implementation of the 26 opcodes can be found here.

Features

This port has a few extra features, besides the ability to run in a browser :

• switch between Amiga and EGA palettes
• switch between the original 320x200 and 640x400 resolutions
• rewind game play

Data files

As the game data files are not freely distributable, you will need to extract and convert your original files.

This can be done using extract.py. The script takes datafiles as input and outputs a .js file to be included in the main .html page.

For example, the DOS demo data files can be converted with these commands :

$ zipinfo ootwdemo.zip
Archive:  ootwdemo.zip
Zip file size: 531072 bytes, number of entries: 14
-rw-a--     1.1 fat        4 b- stor 91-Sep-20 14:52 VOL.1
-rw-a--     1.1 fat        4 b- stor 91-Sep-20 14:52 VOL.END
-rw-a--     1.1 fat     2940 b- i4:2 92-Jan-21 14:46 MEMLIST.BIN
-rw-a--     1.1 fat       16 b- shrk 92-Jan-20 16:10 TABVOL.BIN
-rw-a--     1.1 fat     1024 b- i4:2 92-Jan-19 11:51 DEMO3.JOY
-rw-a--     1.1 fat   201522 b- stor 92-Jan-21 14:46 BANK01
-rw-a--     1.1 fat    77608 b- stor 92-Jan-13 18:28 BANK02
-rw-a--     1.1 fat    15100 b- i4:2 92-Jan-13 18:39 BANK05
-rw-a--     1.1 fat    44034 b- stor 92-Jan-13 18:40 BANK06
-rw-a--     1.1 fat   162364 b- stor 92-Jan-20 13:08 BANK0D
-rw-a--     1.1 fat     1182 t- i4:2 92-Jan-13 18:17 CONFIG.LNG
-rwxa--     1.1 fat     7852 b- stor 92-Jan-13 18:15 CONFIG.EXE
-rw-a--     1.1 fat     2624 t- i4:2 92-Jan-29 00:00 README
-rwxa--     1.1 fat    17947 b- stor 92-Jan-20 16:09 OOTWDEMO.EXE
14 files, 534221 bytes uncompressed, 529759 bytes compressed:  0.8%

$ gcc -shared -o bytekiller_unpack.so unpack.c

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$( pwd ) python extract_dos.py ootwdemo.zip > ootwdemo.js

With the 15th anniversary edition data file :

$ python extract_15th.py Pak01.pak > aw15thdemo.js

Status

The DOS demo version of the game can be played at cyxx.github.io/another_js

Music and sounds are not played.

Transparency with 15th anniversary edition backgrounds is not handled.