Perhaps in time, EricLang's Lemmix can be made into a "perfect version of Lemmings".
Then if EricLang do that, that would be excellent! But this version will only be for people that discovered it.
Well, depending on your definition of perfection, I think this has already been done--just download an Amiga emulator and play the Amiga version of Lemmings!
And what about these on abandonware websites? It is not everybody that thinks to get a copy of WinUAE with their kickstart roms. I don't want to correct the version for me, I want to correct it for THE OTHERS.
Well, regarding the Amiga version, I still managed to get everything I need with the help of Google, so it isn't
that hard.̆ Maybe you can even just ask around and someone will be willing to give you the necessary files.
As for your discoverability concerns regarding EricLang's Lemmix, well, when you're all done with getting the "perfect version of DOS Lemmings", you still need to distribute out to "THE OTHERS".̆ So how is that any more or less discoverable than Lemmix?
I just want to improve the Dos version. I'm wasting my time you said? Ok! But at least, I'll do something better for Lemmings. Probably not the best ever, but at least, I will.
Well, I thought you want the "perfect" version mainly for your own use, since as far as I know no one else in the forum seem to have a demand for an improved DOS version.̆ I am merely suggesting whether it'd be easier if you just use the Amiga or similar other version instead.
Also, in the part of the post where I explicitly said you wasted your time, it was specifically with regards to your trying to add the missing water and fire objects in the various levels.̆ And that's because you don't need to do that yourself--Mindless was able to extract the Amiga version of the levels, which has all the missing water and fire objects, in LVL format.̆ Granted, you'd still need some work to incorporate them back into DOS's compressed levelXXX.dat files, but it at least saves you from actually editing the levels.
And btw, I send you a PM because I'm needing of help. But do you want to help me?
Definitely not now.̆ You might notice I'm not that active in the forums anyway, not even in the Chip's Challenge community.̆ I'm currently in the middle of a home purchase and simply don't have the focus to deal with what you want right now.̆ Maybe a month or two down the road.
Besides, I really don't know what kind of "perfection" you're seeking.̆ My impression is that the only thing that actually bothers you is the music always reverting to the first music when you replay a level.̆ I can probably fix that when I have time.̆ In fact, technically I already more or less fixed the music issue some time ago, if you don't mind the fact that it was based off the CD version of DOS Lemmings which has minor game-mechanical differences compared with the original version of DOS Lemmings.
Keep in mind again that you are the only one right now who's demanding such fixes.̆ Even the Lemmings Remake project has officially moved to using Lemmix instead of hacking DOS Lemmings, so whatever help I offer you is really mostly for your benefit.
