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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!"
Now if it were network aware so that two people wouldn't have to huddle onto the same keyboard (or one person with a joystick), I would be a happy man indeed.
The source of course. Make it happen!!
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
...for a Game Boy Advance version of this game.
Star Control 2 always felt a little like a ripoff of Starflight and Starflight 2 to me. If only the similar projects behind those games would be as successful!
Great work, I am looking forward to playing it.
I have a small suggestion though - how about preparing a smaller media/game data pack, perhaps with the music/fmv ripped out so that this is more managable for dial up users? Also, people who have never played the game before may want to just try it out, but aren't prepared to download 140megs worth of data..
My suggestion is to wait until this port becomes a bit more stable, and then play it... I can promise that you'll be amazed! It has a great storyline... it manages in some places to be hilarious and creepy at the same time (like with the Orz).
Also, the melee mode has all of the SC1 ships, plus a lot more!
(that said: SC2 is great, but I'd avoid SC3! It was made by some other company, and... it just lacked what SC1 and SC2 had. It was a shame. But SC2 still rules! You'll love it, trust me!)
Must not forget Master of Orion (Microprose) and X-COM: UFO Defense (Microprose). Might as well throw in the whole Wing Commander series, too (WC1 & WC2 + their expansions, Privateer, Academy and Armada... leave WC3+ alone).
MOO, MOM, and X-COM are among my favourite games of all time... I still play all of them on a regular basis.
All anyone can tell you is to give SC2 a try, then you'll see. I pretty much pounded down the door at EB the day SC3 was released. It was good. If there had never been an SC1 and SC2 it would have been damn good. But as a sequel to those two, it was dismal. Go try out SC2. The graphics aren't special, but the storyline is incredible. As far as I (and many others, judging from this thread) am concerned, it's the single best game ever made.
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