Here’s the techie scoop: Star Wars: Dark Forces was ahead of its time with multi-threading in the ’90s. Waine confessed, “They managed to do multi-threading effectively, using a task system in the mid-1990s.” To make it jive with our 2020s tech, Nightdive had to pull out all the stops with modern wizardry.
Guess what? They even had the golden ticket – the original source code. But, and it’s a big but, dragging this classic into the present day wasn’t a stroll in the park. “We had to modernize all these concepts that worked for programming in DOS for your 486 or Pentium but do not fly on your 16-core, infinite gigahertz modern processor,” explained Waine.
