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Microsoft Releases Allegiance Game Source

Posted by simoniker on from the giveaway-plus-plus dept.

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!"

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  1. Linux Port? by freakmn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First off, why is this article not on the front page?

    Second, I don't see anything denying the ability to create a Linux port. Is this right? I must admit I'm very surprised to hear this. I've never heard of this game, but I'm intrigued by the fact that Microsoft is releasing source code to the public!

    Is this some sort of trick? I find it ironic that microsoft is giving allegiance to open source. Sure, it's not free (as in liberated), but it's a step in the right direction.

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    1. Re:Linux Port? by freidog · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The licesnse wouldn't restrict you from porting to linux. So long as you met the other guidlines, no profit, stays under MS' liscense ect.

      However, it is a DirectX game. I haven't looked through it yet, but i would assume they used DirectInput, DirectSound ect in addition to Direct3D. So moving it over would not be a trivial task.

  2. Nice! by Xentor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I must say I'm impressed! I've been playing this game with said community for months now, and on the alleg.net forums, people have actually discussed trying to buy the source code from MS. Now that it's out there, I really can't wait to see what kind of mods the community will come out with.

    My respect for MS just jumped up a notch... Still negative, but closer to zero.

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