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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. Now I miss my 286 with cga graphics by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1, Troll
    ...not.

    Starcontrol2 was pretty primitive. I admit I have not played it since I was in 6th grade but it seemed like a simple program that was no more then a few hundred k at the most. Very atari-ish. Xannon and commander keen were both alot better in my opinion from this time frame.

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