Comments on: Victory is mine

By: Mithro

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:29:43 +0000

I thought you would like to know that Thousand Parsec, after a year of development, released a new version of it’s Primary Client.

If you are into old-style 4x games, I suggest you give it a go!

By: mpyne

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:42:07 +0000

Jure: To be honest what I think we need is some kind of open-source Master of Orion workalike. :) If that’s where FreeOrion is headed then I’d be very happy.

Thousand Parsec looks a little too general to be a fun game at this point (I’ve always been suspicious of game-building frameworks). FreeOrion was much further behind last time I had checked it out but it looks to be much improved now, so I’ll check it out again I guess.

Of course the way to go to play Master of Orion is DOSBox which works just fine in fact but it would still be nice to have an open-source client.

By: mpyne

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:24:32 +0000

Bligh: All of what you mention is true, which is why I dislike copy-protected games in general. The activation thing kind of caught me off guard; it was not required in the 1.0x version you buy off the shelf, instead the serial number was mentioned as being required to download patches and updates.

Either way the point of the article was more on making Wine work, pity no one else seems to know about registering the Wine DLLs.

By: Jure Repinc

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:04:59 +0000

“I agree. Death to copy protection.
…although it does provide a reason to switch to open source games, once they reach high enough quality.”

Also don’t forget that you can always speed things up so that the FLOSS game reaches high enough quality quicker. Join the open source game project and help them with the game. And no you don’t need to be a programmer at all. You can help with the story, web page, graphics, sound, ideas …..

For 4X games similar to GalCiv I know two open source projects who could sure use all the help:
Thousand Parsec
FreeOrion

I already try to do my best to help with Thousand Parsec. One of the things I slowly do there is also to develop a client for KDE 4. I hope to get the first test version out shorty after KDE 4.0 release on 11th January.

By: ethana2

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:14:22 +0000

I agree. Death to copy protection.
…although it does provide a reason to switch to open source games, once they reach high enough quality.

I look forward to apricot :)
I’d like to run Halo in WINE, but with all you went through, I don’t know if I have the will to bother. It segfaults immediately upon starting up, though the installation was fine.

Yarr, you’ve already given me enough info to proceed. Now I have to get Halo working. *shakes fist*

By: Bligh

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:52:20 +0000

“since it doesn’t have the copy protection code” and “it required activation (what Stardock uses for copy protection instead of CD copying controls)” and “the authentication certificate …. it’s tied to the machine you’re on.”

You said “bought … a long time ago”. Imagine that the company was out of business, you would be out of luck.

It doesn’t matter if the “copy protection” is tied to the CD or not. Tying it to the machine is worse: changing hardware; machine died; or moving to another machine. It’s the same with Windows “copy protection”. Harms consumers and it should be illegal.

It’s not Linux/Open Source/Free Software that makes it harder to use Linux based operating systems as a “Gaming Platform” but the idiotic narrow minded views of the game companies about “copy protection”.

By: Nicholas Schmidt

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:23:38 +0000

Not looking good my friend:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=3081