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Microsoft Releases Allegiance Game Source
Zenin writes "Microsoft has graciously released the source code to Allegiance for free on their site. Allegiance was released back in 2000, and rated the 'Best Game No One Played' by GameSpot - this little- known multiplayer space-combat/team-RTS was pretty innovative, yet never took off in the mainstream. Nevertheless it quickly developed a fanatical following - a dedicated community who reverse engineered the game to enable complete mods, expand server power, and much more. A million thanks to Joel 'solap' Dehlin and the rest of the Allegiance development team for making this happen!"
NOOOOOOO!!!! A company trying to protect its hard earned sources for a game and not let anyone else make money off of it.
Nintendo today, released to the open source community the source code for the virtual boy smash hit "Panic Bomber".
From Nintendo VP of Open Source, "We feel that we're doing the world a service by releasing such a popular game to the masses for their free consumption and alteration."
Linus Torvalds says, "The open source community has a new friend in Nintendo. Of course, releasing a free dev kit for the gamecube would be nice, but this... this is even better. We can now program for the virtual boy."
Slashdot user TechBoy880 had this to say, "My life is now complete... I can now mod my favorite game of all time. Now we just need to press Nintendo to release the hardware specs and a dev kit to go along with this..."
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor
Your UID clearly shows that you are Satan.
Suggesting Microsoft would do something nice just adds to my hypothesis of you being Lucifer.
Anyone care to say that I am wrong?
Microsoft has not released the source code to Windows 2000.
Microsoft has not released the source code to Microsoft Office 95, 97, 2000, XP.
Microsoft has not released the source code to sol.exe.