aardvark on 1/12/2002 at 02:25
Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL
Jagasian writes "The classic computer space adventure role playing game known as Star Control 2 has been officially ported from its obsolete mono-platform source code to modern multi-platform C++/SDL source code. The game is open source, and compiles and runs on Linux! The alpha release binaries are available for download now!" (Slashdot.org)
The Ur-Quan Masters
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http://sc2.sourceforge.net/)
"The project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the sources of Star Control 2 3DO version to the fan community. Our goal is to port this wonderful game to current personal computers and operating systems. It is and will remain 100% free of charge, and anyone can contribute to the project and thus help make it even better. For more information, look at our info page."
The Ur-Quan Masters v0.1 alpha
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http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.html)
Uncia on 1/12/2002 at 20:45
YAY! :D
I must have spent ages playing that game against my brother... :)
Fafhrd on 2/12/2002 at 19:58
Toys for Bob was doing an SC2 remake, whatever happened to that?
James Sterrett on 4/12/2002 at 02:56
Also note Protostar, which some of the SC2/Starflight people made after SC2.
IMO it isn't quite as good as the other three, but you can get it at Underdogs:
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http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Protostar)
(If you liked SC2 for the fighting, steer clear. Those who liked the plot/exploration angles of SF1, SF2, and SC2 should take a peek, but the plot is weaker in Protostar.)
aardvark on 4/12/2002 at 21:30
Quote:
Originally posted by Fafhrd Toys for Bob was doing an SC2 remake, whatever happened to that? It's still the same guys.
(
http://toysforbob.com/)
James Sterrett on 4/12/2002 at 22:08
Another similar effort: Iron Seed
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http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Iron+Seed)
I never managed to win the final battle (argh!) and it does have its small troubles with actually understanding some events, but it has some real originality in the premise, a nice gritty feel to it, and a nifty system for construction of components.
Shadowcat on 16/1/2007 at 00:45
The Ur-Quan Masters v0.6.1 is out! It's a bug-fix for 0.6.0, which was released last month (but newsworthy I think, as it's been ages since the project was mentioned here).
From the 0.6.0 release blurb:
Quote:
Happy days and jubilation! It's The Ur-Quan Masters 0.6.0.
And The Ur-Quan Masters 0.6.0 means network SuperMelee!
And it means in-game key configuration.
And it means support for 64 bit systems.
And it means more bugfixes.
And it means more internal improvements which you won't care about.
Phatose on 16/1/2007 at 00:59
Holy thread necromancy worthy of a pkunk batman.
They still haven't put out the final remix yet, have they?
doctorfrog on 17/1/2007 at 19:30
Not completely, it seems.
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http://www.medievalfuture.com/precursors/music.php)
Don't let that stop you from playing this game; I did over a year ago for the first time and the music was still quite excellent. The beauty of this project is that the original tunes were also done out-of-studio by volunteer fans (IIRC).
Too bad I'm moving, now would be a good time to scare up some network'd melee on the IRC (if I had any takers).
