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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. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The GPL releases YOU!

    1. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You are a brave soul, sir.

    2. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Soviet Russia is gone, they have the new, improved Putin Russia now. Patch your trolls!

  2. Re:GPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kinda sounds like the Linux crowd, huh? "I'm so ALTERNATIVE by patching my kernel every day while you brainwashed Windows sheep meander in unenlightened tedium." Funny to think that if you had back all the time you spent tweaking and patching (for no good reason other than to say you have the latest version), you wouldn't know what to do with the workstation on your desk.

    So what if people spend all their time keeping up to date with the latest kernel? It's a free country, deal with it.

  3. What the...? by limekiller4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    jason@oliver:~/quarantine$ chmod 700 uqm-0.1-linux-static.sh
    jason@oliver:~/quarantine $ ./uqm-0.1-linux-static.sh
    -== The Ur-Quan Masters installation ==-

    Hi, I'm your friendly neighbourhood installation program.
    I will make you very happy, but first, we've got some business to take care
    of.

    I need a content .tgz package and I can't find one in
    the ./ dir. I really can't work without it.
    If you don't have it, please press CTRL-C and quickly get it, before I get
    swapped out.
    Otherwise, please tell me where you've hidden it:
    Bye.

    ----[%snip]----

    What the heck?

    --
    My .02,
    Limekiller
  4. Re:GPL by Terralthra · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    excuse the rant. caffiene has yet to be digested.

    This might be a valid excuse, if you, or a different AC, hadn't posted this exact same rant earlier today. Several times.

    If it's a different AC, it says something about you that not only do you post the same thing as someone else, you use the same excuse as they do, all the while bitching about conformity.

    If, on the other hand, all of these posts were done by you, drink a caffeinated drink already.


    --
    -Terralthra...
  5. Re:FINALLY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    aw, man: always the mom. *sigh*