Juan Valdez
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Is there anywhere that I can download the original, DOS based version of the game from 1992? I have been searching everywhere but I can only find this new version.
Any suggestions as to where I can look?
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FalconMWC
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Is it legal to post a link to a game that was sold?
(I know that UQM is almost the same game, but a lot of things have been changed, not to mention the name!) 
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Michael Martin
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Technically, no; the official answer is "use UQM instead". Even if you ignore the parts we don't have (mainly the trademark on Star Control), we weren't given rights to the PC source.
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LordJim
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That is weird because I emailed Paul and Fred a long time ago (when this whole deal started) and they at least implied that they had recovered the lost PC source code and were planning on using it for UQM.
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Michael Martin
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The code we received was partially ported (and basically OpenGL based); they had claimed to us that the PC source was lost.
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FalconMWC
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So the finaly answer would be yes, it is illegal. :-/
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Juan Valdez
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OK.
I still have it installed on my old desktop so I guess I will just have to transfer it to my new computer.
Thanks for the replies
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Culture20
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It's got complete conversations for one reason. It's also fun to see other differences between SC2 and UQM. At least, that's what I still fire up mine for. Maybe he wants to decompile it. 
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« Last Edit: February 07, 2004, 02:20:27 am by Culture20 »
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Tiberian
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Nice one, Censored... I once lend my SC2 diskettes to a friend of mine and since it was a pirate-version, I didn't have the starmap so I drew a map of my own which I gave to my friend.
About 5 years later (one year ago from now) a guy said in irc he is having problems with SC2 copy protection (I didn't know about UQM at that time) so I just told him what star is in question whenever I was available.
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Shiver
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You know, you can mess with some of the settings so the game acts more like the old PC version.
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I never had a crack for it.
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