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Free The TA Source Code

Posted by Hemos on from the like-willy dept.

JFL writes " A petition to request that the Total Annihilation source code's current owner, Infogrames, release the code into the public domain is currently in full swing over at the French site TA Forever. " I recently picked up TA again, and played around with it - while the graphics are looking a bit dated, the design for the system is great - a very extensible design system, and one that you could build some interesting environments on top of. The use of height is something that was, and to a certain extent, still far ahead of other RTS ? games.

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  1. RTS=Real Time Strategy by zerocool^ · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is the first time i've ever bitched about someone who posted a story (other than Katz), and usually i find the everything2 links useful, but when did the slashdot crowd get un-nerdy enough that we needed to put an explanitory link with the term "RTS". I mean, i'm not saying slashdot is news for the technical god, but its not the same audience as, say, the logon ads on AOL. Give the readers some credit.

    ~Z

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  2. Re:Why not demand all games 2+ years old be opened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    why not sign petitions to get Unreal Tournament's source released? It's just as old as this game.

    Really, fucknut?

    That's funny. Total Annihilation was released in September of 1997, and Unreal Tournament was released in November of 1999.

    Oh yeah. They're the same age. Except for, you know, that two year difference.