Understood. But then why does it have amiga sounds? we can easily extract the non music DOS sounds by capture from dosbox in sfx mode. It'sthe music ones tha are tricky. That said the dos music is just as tracker like as the amiga. SO we jsut have to parse the sequencing data (slighly different fromm amiag) and sample the instruments and convert to mod file.
It's at least partly simply a matter of practicality. Due to historical reasons, the MODs from Amiga version are far more easily found on the Internet (and programming support for them far more easily available) compared with the DOS version. The purist may also object to converting the DOS music to MOD format as the sampling process is not loseless (especially since IIRC the original MOD format only supports 8-bit samples, no ADSR envelope support for instruments IIRC, and probably has limits on sample size/rate, though those can be compensated through using an extended MOD-like format such as XM).
Alone the same line, it is somewhat of a historical/practical reason that Lemmix sticks with DOS Lemmings mechanics. It's certainly intentional on my part as it is clear that on this forum DOS Lemmings is the most popularly played port, the one port that I can actually claim to have bought and own at some point, and I also happened to have the most technical know-how for reading that port's game programming, so that's why when I helped Erik with Lemmix's game mechanics we based it on DOS Lemmings. It has been talked about from time to time to extend support to other popular ports like Amiga and Mac, but ultimately neither Erik or I had the time nor inclination to make a serious effort on that front so far, and certainly demand for it has been low.
One thing I will mention is about the continuous shrugger glitch - on DOS, this only happens in Orig. The exact same thing holds true for Lemmix - only Orig, or players based off Orig (CustLemmixOrig, Lemmings Plus DOS Project) have this mechanic; it won't happen under for example the ONML Lemmix player.
Wow. that's actually impressive. how does that affect gameplay? is there a use for it?
I guess it's an obscure way to get a lemming who finishes building to start walking sooner. Clearly it is possible to construct a level requiring that glitch, but it's fair to say it is of limited use besides a chuckle.
I'd do it, but Delphi compiler isn't free. that's the holdup. Tell me where to get a working compiler for free and I'll try it.
Hmm, I distinctly remember downloading it from the Internet, but it was a long while ago. Note that IIRC Lemmix uses Delphi 6, while even at that time when I downloaded, Delphi had moved on to higher version and considered v6 obsolete I believe. So it might even have been a free legal download (maybe, honestly don't remember not that I would've cared one way or another at the time) from Borland or whoever had the rights to then-current Delphi at the time.
In worst case I can try and see if I can dig up what I have on my one old laptop that still has it installed, if you are not concerned about ownership/licensing.