What language?

[Profs]

Hello im curious what program language write mta ? how you do things to change in the game plkz antswer me

Sorry for my English

[zerb]

English its wrote in. Different servers are located in different countrys of the world so like dutch servers will speak dutch while french servers may speak french etc.

[Profs]

noo you dont undarstand what PROGRAMING language was write mta? and how mta creators made the fings diferent when in real single game

[ChrML]

I think he meant programming language. 0.5 and Blue are written in C++. Add-ons / game modes for Blue must also be written using C++.

[Profs]

but when i opened mta.(i dont rimember good the name of the file ) with notepad the languge was not like c++ why ?

[Jigga]

u mean the .scm? it just uses different vars, it's all c++ style

[ChrML]

Because MTA is compiled from C++. What you see when you open an executable (.exe) in notepad is plain machine binary code compiled from C++. If MTA was purely Open Source, you could download the source and view it as C++ and eventually compile an .exe yourself. The final version of MTA "blue" will have many parts that are open source even though most of the core parts will remain closed.

Edited August 26, 2005 by Guest

[ChrML]

Jigga: Sorry Scm is nothing like C++

[Profs]

amm so maybe are some programs who can open program code in c++ ?

[zerb]

noo you dont undarstand what PROGRAMING language was write mta? and how mta creators made the fings diferent when in real single game

[Jigga]

erm... u meant the .exe lol... cant you decompile it in borland or sth?? ChrML, yea, my bad

[ChrML]

amm so maybe are some programs who can open program code in c++ ?

That's called reverse compiling (aka decompiling). Nothing can convert machine code to good C++ because it's pretty impossible. Reason is that C++ has complex functions converted into simple machine code and there's no way it could reconstruct a C++ compatible source using it. You can convert machine code to assembly though and that's pretty easy, but after all, assembly is nothing but human readable machine code and huge programs decompiled are not easy to read in assembly at all (it would take you ages to understand everything).

Java is an another language compiled to a binary format (not machine code). Java can actually be decompiled back to pretty nice Java code (haha, too bad for the close sourced Java programmers).

Also programs written in assembly (well, pretty few people actually write windows programs in assembly) can be decompiled back to an almost identical assembly code and thus also be easier to understand, but still damn hard.

[Profs]

Thanks for info

[jhxp]

erm... u meant the .exe lol... cant you decompile it in borland or sth??

not really :

2. You are not allowed to alter any binaries or libraries that came with the software. This includes, but

is not limited to reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling and hex editing. An exception can be

made for educational purposes although this requires a new license which has to be requested to and

approved by the MTA team or when such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law

notwithstanding this limitation

*Note: You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it (not accepting means

you are not allowed to install/use MTA). However, nothing else grants you permission to modify the

program. These actions are prohibited by law.