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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. Re:this could be a welcome trend by Jester998 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.