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Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL

Posted by chrisd on from the waiting-for-starflight dept.

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!"

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  1. FINALLY! by Maxwell_E · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally we have the source to do what I've always wanted to in SC2.

    Annhilate those goddamn space harpies. OOOOOH I hated those with all of my Ur-Quan might. WHY THOSE SPACE WENCHES WILL QUAKE IN THEIR BOOTS when I uhh, get my hands on that source...

    (proceeds to downloads and launches fighters for good effect.)

    1. Re:FINALLY! by Maxwell_E · · Score: 5, Funny

      I realize it's poor taste to reply to your own comment and all but funny story.

      I just showed my wife this comment. And I'm like, YEAH! Vindication! See! I'm not a nut, someone else out there hates space harpies as much as I do! The conversation went like this:
      Me: Yeah! Space sirens suck! Woo!
      Wife: Space sirens?
      Me: Yeah! It's like, you're this Ur Quan massive guy, and your whole thing is you launch like this swarm of locust fighter type thing and then this stupid dildo ship comes along and..
      Wife: Dildo ship?
      Me: Dildo SHAPED ship...
      Wife: Uh huh.
      Me: Anyways those goddamn space tramps are all like, OOOOH AAAHH AAAH And you're like, GODDAMMIT!
      Wife: Uh huh.
      Me: And see, you're fucked because she can, OOOOH AAAAH AHH the whole time with your fighters, and you're toast.
      Wife: That's nice dear.
      Me: (silence, realizing the obvious)

    2. Re:FINALLY! by Maxwell_E · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why not, everybody else does. My only sin is I didn't kill a space siren.

  2. Finally! by A+non+moose+cow · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can get rid of my floppy/zip DOS bootup combo with its freakish combo of memory managers and drivers. I spent two days putting this jerry rig together just so I could reminisce.

  3. Damn them! by RecoveredMarketroid · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was in first year, we picked up this game just before midterms... My entire floor lost about a month to it!

    Now, they hit me with it again, at the most intense point in my year!... Oh, the carnage...

  4. 140 MB? by I_R_Che · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, wtf? Are they bundling KDE with it?

  5. Re:Sweet by FireballFreddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, a 12 year old game made it to Linux?! Sweet, maybe soon we'll be able to play Pong!

    Kidding of course, I remember playing this at my psycho neighbor's house and it really is a fun game. We set the video output to a heavy metal soundtrack and recorded it on VCR to make our own Star Control rock videos... does that qualify for some sort of geek-wannabe award?

    -FF

    --
    SQUEAK, the Death of Rats explained.
  6. Re:The best game news I've heard in a while by BubbaTheBarbarian · · Score: 2, Funny

    We used to do the same thing with Wolf 3D.

    Every time some Nazi would yell "Mien Leavin" or whatever it was, take a shot. If he gets shot in the head, we take a shot to the head.

    Then again, if I was shot in the head, would I have time to say "MY LIFE!!!!" before my ass hit the floor. More likely I would say "Stupid bitch, no wonder your name is BJ!" That, or ouch.

    Ah yes, nothing wasted time like SC, X-Tank, Wolf and like. No wonder the users hated us.

    "Bastard operators win and totally demoralize...that is REAL winning"

  7. Re:FINALLY! - a funny Star Control joke by saskboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I loved your joke, and sent it to friends.
    Ignore the trolls here, I have kissed a girl and played Star Control, so I know it is possible that you are married ;-)

    --
    Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
  8. Build instructions by beej · · Score: 5, Funny
    For those of you who love to build it yourself:

    1. Get source.
    2. ./build.sh uqm
    3. You only have SDL-1.2.2. You need 1.2.3.
    4. Get SDL-1.2.3, build install
    5. ./build.sh uqm
    6. SDL mixer is unhappy. Get a new SDL_mixer, build, install.
    7. ./build.sh uqm
    8. Bask in your nearly completed task. Glory awaits!
    9. ./build.sh uqm install
    10. cp--what's this "content"?
    11. find . -name content -print
    12. Go back to the web page, RTFWP, download content tarball.
    13. See that content tarball is 120MB.
    14. See the 56K modem blinking.
    15. Play GTA3 for 8 hours.
    16. Unpack content.
    17. ./build.sh uqm install
    18. Launch fighters!
    1. Re:Build instructions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      19. ???
      20. Profit!