Danger From The Deep as an alternative to SH5

[artao]

regarding contacting them: they have an IRC channel at #dangerdeep on freenode. They've been quite friendly and as helpful as they could.
I can't get it to run myself, as I use win xp with an ati x700 - a bit old, and this is yet another reason I need to replace it - as i've read others have win problems as well. They've told me they don't HAVE a win developer, and compile their win versions in a win virtual machine under linux. I'd like to try compiling it myself, but have little to no experience doing so, thus haven't.
However, the whole 'helping them out' thing is illustrated well, i think, by this issue. If someone who knew HOW would do a win compile, and/or look at the code to see if there's some inherent windows incompatibility accidently programmed in, that would improve things a good deal.
This is a perfect opportunity to build a sim we'd like to play. The game, as is, with just these devs, MAY be a couple years from playable, but that could be sped up significantly with an influx of help. I'm trying to decide where I could contribute myself ...