Request: Duckwalk.exe

[nologgie]

Does anyone have a copy of Brian O'Donnell's Duckwalk program? Please post it if you do.

Thanks

[Ben J]

I don't have it, but I wonder what it does. Turn all enemies into ducks?

[nologgie]

I don't have it, but I wonder what it does. Turn all enemies into ducks?

Precisely! And in keeping with Brian's sense of humor, it turns all characters into gnome-hatted june bugs. 

Except that it doesn't. 

Brian wrote:
    "Duckwalk is a curiosity.  There is an internet legend in the FRUA community that the game Dark Queen of Krynn (DQK) uses a 'conditional compile' of the FRUA engine.  This was obviously wrong, but I wanted to see what DQK actually was.  This program can display the maps used in the game, and has the ability to change them, but it's hard enough to find the important events in that game without meddling with their positions and making things worse."

I tried to download it a few times over the years, but always got a 404 error. It didn't seem important enough at the time to write to Mr O'Donnell and ask him to fix the link.

And, yes, I am kicking myself, if only half-heartedly. 
 

[Nol Drek]

I don't have it, but I wonder what it does. Turn all enemies into ducks?

It is a partial disassembly of the code for DQK. It goes through the ECL and translates the byte data into text and events.

Unfortunately, I no longer have a copy of it on my computer.

dqkwalk.exe - duck walk - continues Brian's tradition of giving his programs funny names.

[Ishad Nha]

Try Googling Brian O'Donnell, there will be millions of false positive results though.

[nologgie]

Done that, with and without additional qualifiers.  No Joy. 

[Ishad Nha]

Anyone know anything about this Brian O'Donnell? Homepage, address, telephone number?

[Ben J]

Anyone know anything about this Brian O'Donnell? Homepage, address, telephone number?

Take a look at this thread. 

[Ishad Nha]

He is the guy who died earlier this year.
His web page contains a broken link to Duckwalk!