For Neora or Exe mod

[EpicMickeyBR]

Is Neora/Alkarters PDK the Chinese crazy exe mod? From here: http://ztage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1...&start=240 ?

Is that person still active?
I think it may be the better alternative to update this executable to either include or work with the latest ddraw.dll instead of creating a compatible ddraw fork. It would be a more complete package to work with instead of a patchwork of hacks that will probably fail to work together upon updating any part of it.
(perhaps that's also in the interest of the author)

I don't think he is active. Upgrading the exe is not an option. He modified the exe directly. As far as I can tell, he just did it all by hand. This is how I worked back in 05-06. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I would not believe what he did was possible. He has no way of recreating all of this on another exe without starting from scratch. It is a shame he did not do it with the dll system, then we would just have to update the offets and everything would most likely work.

tl;dr someone would have to be crazy and have a lot of time to try and bring over all the changes over to 2.0a.

Updating ddraw.dll is much easier. In fact, we could just create one ddraw.dll which works with both versions by detecting the lf2 version and choosing the correct addresses based on that.

So it's possible to have ddraw in Neora/PDK?