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torgoguys 6 hours ago

I seem to recall browsing what appeared to be the complete source back in the day. I put in a bit of an effort to get it compiling, but it was only released as poorly scanned printouts of the source code and OCR wasn't so good then so the project was bigger than I hoped.

EarlKing 5 hours ago | parent [-]

That would be the source code posted to that sonic.net site. It was a mix of raw dumps of FORTH blocks and printouts converted to PDFs. It wasn't the full source code, and there weren't any design documents in there.

dzdt 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You can see on archive.org where it captured directory info for files which were not stored:

https://web.archive.org/web/20031218202130/http://www.sonic....

When you navigate those directory archives many of the files are missing. E.g.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030529230704/http://www.sonic....

Some design documents ARE there, e.g. "Specification of 3d display for starquest" : https://web.archive.org/web/20030719111039if_/http://www.son...

EarlKing 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Well....... shit. I'd been in there previously and never noticed that. Disregard.