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michael
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does anyone know of a progect like this for the first one? I want to try it without buying a system.
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Fossaman
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You can find a downloadable version of SC I by looking on google, original software, but on my computer it was really choppy and hard to use. I don't remember if the original was, but...
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michael
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they all seem to be gone.
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michael
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thanks. 
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Defender
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umm, i know your trying to be a nice guy and all, but there shouldnt be any links to copyrighted material. dont want to offend the gods...Fred and Paul.
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« Last Edit: December 18, 2004, 09:13:38 pm by DEFIANT »
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michael
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umm.... "shouldnt there be no"? anyway I get your point sorry.
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Bultro
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It looks like a "serious" site, so i guess the game is no longer protected by copyright, or they were granted permission by the copyright holder...
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michael
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it's abandonware.
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Fossaman
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It was abandonware when it was first released, wasn't it? My brother's friend installed it on our computer. Oh, wait...He put SC II on there as well, so he might have just been pirating it... :-/
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Halleck
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it's abandonware.
Abandonware is a nice concept, but unfortunately most software that people claim is "abandonware" is actually still protected by copyright. I guess it really depends on your definition of Abandonware, though.
At any rate, my guess is that either Atari or TFB now holds the rights to SC1. If TFB holds the rights to the code and content (I'm certain they don't own the name) they may choose to release them at a later date. If it's held by Atari, good luck.
I don't know what Fred and Paul would think of you downloading and playing SC1, but remember that piracy is still piracy, "abandonware" or otherwise. I admit that I enjoy playing so-called abandonware games, but I've done a little research into copyright law and learned that simply because the game was "abandoned" doesn't mean you're allowed to freely distribute it.
Of course, this may not apply in contries other than the US. I know very little about international copyright law.
I haven't played SC1 before and I'm wondering, what's with the
ship movement? I mean, when your viewing the tactical screen and
the ship moves... I don't understand why I can move in a direction one time, but not another time.
When I first played SC1, I was having a problem figuring out the navigation too. I realized that I had been conceptualizing the starmap wrong- it is a rotating 3d map, and I looked at it as a crazily bouncing 2d map. Not sure if that's what your issue is, but that helped for me.
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