Marathon Trilogy Available for Free Download

Thanks to Blues for the news that the games making up first person action series Marathon are available for download from Bungie.org. The classic series, arguably the precursors to Halo, made up some of the finest action gaming available on the Mac platform. From the article: "The Mac .sit-format files are currently available, and apparently there is an effort underway to create a PC-friendly version of this release compatible with the Aleph One Marathon-based OpenSource project."

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[jvmatthe]

These really should be in the story posted on Slashdot itself. No good reason to link to another site first...

Marathon Trilogy Website with the downloads of the games and the tools. Also the FAQ.

Aleph One website with the Free software client which will hopefully be compatible with all three of the released games.

Marathon V.S. every other FPS

[Needanewnick]

I still judge every FPS I play partially on how it compares to Marathon. Be it story, interesting play, mood or just fun.

What other games do people use as a base for comparisons in other genres?

classic apps, not ported to osx

[kaan]

I guess it's easiest to just release the existing stuff for free, but it looks like these are the original, pre-OSX applications (aka, "classic"). So they have not been ported to OSX.

I don't have System 9 installed on my machine, so this isn't too exciting...

Re:classic apps, not ported to osx

[Anonymous Coward]

How to play on OSX -

Unstuff
Drop Aleph One.app in the directory of the game you want
Double click Aleph One.app
Enjoy

All Aleph One needs is the data.

They're classic apps.

[porkchop_d_clown]

But looking over one, it looks like it has the data files you need to add to Aleph One to get the full game.

Re:Flamebait? No. Flamebait and Troll? Yes.

[PaganRitual]

of course there are ...

like Breakout ... Super Breakout ... *whispers* photoshop

that would have been so much more funny if /. supported the "font size" command.