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Call to Power 2 To Get Open Sourced?
An anonymous reader writes "Winnie Lee (st_swithin), who did the GUI programming for CTP2, has announced at Apolyton Civilization Site that Call to Power 2 should become available as open source in the near future. She says the news comes 'straight from the horse's mouth', as well as the lead, network, and gamestate programmers. This ends a month-long hunt and negotiation for the code with Activision." This looks close to a done deal, and is excellent news for strategy gamers and fans of this Civilization-related title if everything comes through.
I'm a really big Civ fan, lost so many countless hours to Civ 2...
But I was very dissapointed with Civ:CTP. I couldn't play it for very long, they totally ruined the Civ experiance, IMO. I'm still not sure what it was, maybe it was the interface that totally threw me off... Things just didn't 'feel' right, it didn't feel like Civ.
What would be ultra-fscking-cool would be to see Alpha Centauri open sourced and ported to Linux (and made to work on my goddamn WinXP Pentium 4 box... grrr), that would kick so much ass. I actually have to admit loving AC, (or SMAC) more than Civ...
In fact, I'm gonna see if I can get it working through WINE now...