Ok so it's not so hot now, in fact, it's 2 month old news... BUT, I
did just recently find out about it and I haven't seen any talk about
it in this group. Actually I haven't seen much talk about anything in
this group.

Strategy First just released a new update to the JA2 series, it's
called WildFire and is basically a mod of the original JA2 game.
That's all really irrelevant though, the interesting part, is that
they released the JA2 sorce code with it. As far as I can tell, it's
the source code all the way up to the gold version (the first release
from SF).

And this brings me to a question:

1. Any coders, hackers, modders in this group interested in a little
project? I think I'm gonna call it JA2: Deadlier Games. It would
actually be 2 projects, one to strip out the core tactical game and
smack some multiplayer on top of it, and the second would be to turn
the game into a single sector mission based game.

Eventually, it would be nice to be able to do multiplayer single
sector mission based campaigns as well, but at first, we'll do single
scenarios that are not linked.

Be forwarned though, the code itself is daunting, it's alot to take
in, I'd estimate somewhere around 200k lines of code in roughly 50
source files. It was compiled in VC6 so you'll need access to that in
order to join up. Let me know if you are interested.