Microsoft made a commercial game free...

[SunnyD]

An old favorite of mine - Allegiance - is now public domain. You can download it here. Microsoft also released the source code too.

Wow.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Didn't see the source on the download page...

 

[FoBoT]

is it fun?

 

[EyeMWing]

What's the approximate minimum number of players?

 

[XZeroII]

Repost. This is on the Apps/Games forums. The kicker is that they not only made it free, they also released the source-code.

 

[oniq]

Doesn't Microsoft release the source code to everything now? :evil:

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
Repost. This is on the Apps/Games forums. The kicker is that they not only made it free, they also released the source-code.

I've been told it isn't a repost if it was posted in another forum.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Didn't see the source on the download page...

The source is available at Microsoft Research, but their download server is getting hammered.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Didn't see the source on the download page...

The source is available at Microsoft Research, but their download server is getting hammered.

Yeah, I found it through google. Didn't see a license though. Don't want to download it without knowing what I am getting myself into 😉

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Didn't see the source on the download page...

The source is available at Microsoft Research, but their download server is getting hammered.

Yeah, I found it through google. Didn't see a license though. Don't want to download it without knowing what I am getting myself into 😉

It's for "educational" purposes only. You can't use it for any commercial thingees (like game derivatives, but if you come up with something good I'm sure M$ would License it to you...)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Didn't see the source on the download page...

The source is available at Microsoft Research, but their download server is getting hammered.

Yeah, I found it through google. Didn't see a license though. Don't want to download it without knowing what I am getting myself into 😉

It's for "educational" purposes only. You can't use it for any commercial thingees (like game derivatives, but if you come up with something good I'm sure M$ would License it to you...)

That's not a license. It doesn't even give you permission to modify the code.

 

[ski2slow]

I remember playing this game during Beta. It was a fun game.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: ski2slow
I remember playing this game during Beta. It was a fun game.

It was one of my favorites. Too bad it died because of Zone subscriptions. It had a lot going for it, especially once the free-zone servers were hacked.

 

[FoBoT]

neato

 

[Yossarian]

the funny part is that I just sold some guy my Allegiance CD this weekend 😉

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: oniq
Doesn't Microsoft release the source code to everything now? :evil:

seems to be the case 😉

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Bassyhead

Originally posted by: oniq
Doesn't Microsoft release the source code to everything now? :evil:

seems to be the case 😉

ouch