WinLems: Fangame by W. Gaylen (not: Lemmings for Windows 95)

GigaLem · January 16, 2025, 01:41:06 PM

Playlist of Levels made on this
I used to make levels on this before getting into Lemmix, I can't seem to find this clone anywhere on the internet, its known as "WinLemm" and personally I wished I seeked this out and archived it before it seemingly disappeared

its very different in a way from W95 Lemmings, it doesn't even have the Oh No Sets. And uses the midi based tracks from the 95 compositions

GigaLem · January 17, 2025, 11:59:47 PM

I found the clone Issue being it has an installer and giving its not from the original site that had the project, I have a bit of pause seeing an installer requiring admin privileges making me worry about if the site that reuploaded it did something to it.
Forgive me for saying this, you can choose to ignore it if you want if nothing is wrong with it. Probably my paranoia speaking but if Sonic Gather Battle has taught me anything is that it is not wise to install a fangame requiring admin privileges as its possible someone added code to make Malicious code and calling it DRM. I'm likely being hyperbolic here and the game be perfectly fine. I know I could use a VM, but still. I just would've preferred the game been in a zip and I just extract the game to folder and everything is go to go.

The Developer did upload the source code to github right here saying anyone is alright to make a fork of it. my issue is that it doesn't have a program file to run it or the level editor.

I do recommend archiving any means of keeping this playable though, it is a part of lemmings history though

Simon · Last Edit: **Today** at 01:37:21 AM by Simon

Nice digging!

Quote from: GigaLem on January 17, 2025, 11:59:47 PMgithub right here
it doesn't have a program file to run it or the level editor.

One way is to build it from source. Warren (the author) says that you needs Visual Basic 6 to build. VB6 is ancient, I have no experience with that.

Another way: Ask Warren directly to release executables. It's a long shot after all these years. And in 2020, he has marked the WinLems github project as archived, which means that he doesn't want to be involved with it anymore. But who knows what will happen if you ask nicely ...

-- Simon