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In VB6, ALL conditions in expression getting be always executed. In C++ with multiple conditions splitted by & operator, never executing when one of them gets a false result.

Why the if() lasagna? Two reasons: 1) inexperience of original author, 2) workaround to not check all conditions of expression which may cause a crash.

Another factor that shows the original author had a low amount of experience when he coded this project.

Why so much if-elseif-elseif-elseif-elseif-.? Yes, here probably will be correct to use switch() (in VB6 the Select Case analogue) operator.

Therefore I had an additional work to provide inclusions into files where these calls are requested.

All functions in all modules are global and can be called from each module directly.

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Limited and inconvenient support for classes, therefore the code tends to abuse a ton of global variables and arrays (also an initial lack of experience of the original author was an another factor that lead to this mess).

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The reason why "globals.h" exists: it has a full list of globally available variables.

All variables are global and accessible from every module and form by default without any includes or imports.

The VB6 platform had a lot of challenges and limitations such as: So, a lot of the code is identical to what was written in VB6 originally. I did a whole conversion of the code with an effort to accurate reproduction. The original author wrote most of the code in the " src" folder in VB6. This also means that SMBX2 content is incompatible. No, LunaLua won't work: this project is binary-incompatible with LunaLua. The PGE Engine intends to be like GZDoom while TheXTech is an analog of Chocolate Doom to represent an original game on modern platforms. It will be similar to GZDoom and Chocolate Doom ports of the Doom game: GZDoom is a powerful and functional engine, the best choice for modders Chocolate Doom is an accurate port of the original game to a modern platform with the purpose to represent the original game including even bugs.

However, TheXTech is needed for PGE Engine as a working research model to develop the new engine. Unlike TheXTech, PGE Engine gives a high degree of flexibility that allows anyone to build something new from scratch without inheriting an old game base. PGE Engine will be used for the second goal - giving a toolkit for new games. The opening of SMBX's source-code and introducing TheXTech has solved the first goal: SMBX has been saved and now it's free/opensource cross-platform software. Since it's foundation, the PGE Project had two goals: 1) save SMBX 2) give a flexible toolkit for new platform games. I'll continue developing the PGE Engine as I have yet to reach the second goal of the project. What's the future of PGE Engine now that TheXTech exists? I need it for PGE Engine development directly, it's much easier to hack and inspect than an old, inconvenient VB6 environment. You have PGE Engine, why you have spent over a month to craft this thing?

Optimizing it to use fewer hardware resources than the original VB6-based game.To make it work without the necessity to use Wine on non-Windows platforms and making it available on non-x86/圆4 platforms.To provide a fully-compatible replica of the old engine for modern platforms, allowing to play old levels and episodes with the same feeling as if they were played on the original VB6-based SMBX game.It's a very convenient research model I want to use in developent of the PGE Engine.It completely reproduces the old SMBX 1.3 engine (aside from it's Editor), includes many of its logical bugs (critical bugs that lead the game to crash or freeze got fixed). It's a port of an old VB6 engine, purely written in C++. SMBX engine, rewritten into C++ from VisualBasic 6.