DEBUILD, a Duke Nukem level editor in QuickBASIC (early WIP)

[MikeHawk]

Ten days ago, I started working on a Duke Nukem level editor out of curiosity. I never really looked into the game files and thought it would be fun. Here's an early preview. It's a pretty good first draft but it doesn't contain some key features such as a proper load/save menu, the ability to load custom backdrops, etc. There's a whole ToDo list at the beginning of the program to give you an idea and the code is riddled with "TODO" and "FIXME" comments.

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If you want to give it a try, place all the .DN1 files of the shareware edition of Duke Nukem 1 into the DATA/ subdirectory and run LOAD.EXE: it will load the 1st level of the 1st episode so you can view, edit, and save it. I'm also leaving the source with it if you want to have a look (yes it's mode 7, and yes, it's as painfully slow as you think it is.)

Oh, and Duke was released on July 1st, 1991! So it's kind of like a belated anniversary thing.