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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:The best game news I've heard in a while by ttfkam · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

    --

    - I don't need to go outside, my CRT tan'll do me just fine.
  2. Great game! by hsa · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Uh!

    I remember buing the 4 disc original. What most of you probably don't remember was that the firm who was developing SC2 "leaked" pirate copies to the BBS.

    At some point of the game (not melee) these copies would constantly crash. Something that I believe was a good hit to the 0-day warez d00dz. However, after seeing the pirated copy briefly by my friend, I had to buy it!

    The graphics were awesome and compared to SC1, the game had changed radically! It was now more of an adventure - more races, more battles and extremely cool music! I have tested atleast 3 programs that extracted the music from the game. Found some Finnish artist as well (Riku Nuottajärvi).

    What this copy is missing is the starmap (original copy protection) where you can find the big suns (cool stuff always near the big suns). And some slashdotter should release the list of rainbow planets, I'm not searching all five I found again!

    Oh! Sorry, Google knows everything!

    Rainbow planets. 996.0 . 904.0 Groombridge 039.5 . 745.8 Beta Pegasi 766.6 . 866.6 Beta Leporis 468.1 . 091.6 Zeta Sextantis 602.0 . 297.9 Gamma Kepler 283.6 . 785.7 Epsilon Draconis 862.5 . 700.0 Alpha Andromedae 853.4 . 879.7 Gamma Aquarii 714.6 . 508.3 Gamma Reticuli 543.7 . 827.0 Epsilon Lipi Quasi space portals. Quasi Normal 530 . 528 775.2 . 890.6 502 . 460 318.3 . 490.6 476 . 496 409.0 . 774.8 488 . 538 973.5 . 315.3 516 . 466 567.3 . 120.7 448 . 504 565.7 . 971.2 468 . 464 921.0 . 610.4 520 . 514 011.1 . 940.4 492 . 492 005.0 . 164.7 476 . 496 611.1 . 414.3 520 . 540 584.4 . 621.3 544 . 532 036.8 . 633.2 506 . 474 190.9 . 092.6 Alien homeworld locations. 197.8 . 596.8 #1 Umgah 400.0 . 543.7 #1 ZoqFot 056.2 . 800.0 #7 WarpPod 052.2 . 052.5 Pkunk 277.6 . 867.3 Aqua Helix 253.5 . 835.8 Thraddash 074.5 . 835.8 Chenjesu 241.6 . 308.7 Spathi 290.8 . 026.9 Shofixti 422.1 . 198.6 Vux 412.5 . 377.0 Syreen 946.9 . 280.6 Druuge 650.0 . 937.2 Utwig Bomb 856.0 . 086.8 Utwig 571.5 . 253.7 Orz 372.1 . 261.9 Object 570.4 . 979.5 Vux Beast 022.9 . 366.6 Ilwrath 600.8 . 263.1 Deep Children 629.1 . 220.8 Juffo-Wup Beta Brahe Special Pod

    Hope nobody is going to Canada this time!

    I go test if I can sell landers in this version, too..

    --Harri