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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: Cerpheus on January 30, 2003, 12:40:25 PM

Title: New Elite-game is Open Source
Post by: Cerpheus on January 30, 2003, 12:40:25 PM

"Elite - Darkness Falls" is a follow-up to the classic Elite games. It is an Open Source project for Windows at the moment, but maybe some Amiga programmer would be interested.... ;) Website with beta-version, FAQ, Forums, etc. you can find on the official website:

www.darkkind.com

Title: Re: New Elite-game is Open Source
Post by: blobrana on January 30, 2003, 01:43:33 PM

Cool, i just downloaded the files...
Early beta versions, but playable...

Well worth converting... :-D

Title: Re: New Elite-game is Open Source
Post by: SlimJim on January 30, 2003, 01:48:18 PM

Interesting. Very intereting. As I understand it, it's a continuation of the original Elite, not of Frontier (i.e. the old Elite flight model etc.) Noone mention internet support, but i suppose that would be too great an effort to implement as of yet. But it is an Open source project, so... :-D
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SlimJim

Title: Re: New Elite-game is Open Source
Post by: Cerpheus on January 30, 2003, 01:58:00 PM

yes, its continuing the original Elite, also with permission of the original author Ian Bell. I guess this could be a real cool game not only on the classic Amiga, but also on OS 4.0 and MorphOS.

Title: Re: New Elite-game is Open Source
Post by: on January 30, 2003, 02:43:54 PM

Check this out too:
http://www.parsec.org/

"Parsec Goes Open Source!

January 28, 2003 -- We are currently preparing the entire code base of Parsec for a full source release in early May 2003, which will mark a major change in the structure of the Parsec Project.

The source release will include platform support for Win32, MacOS X, and Linux, and contain both OpenGL and Glide rendering code."

Title: Re: New Elite-game is Open Source
Post by: blobrana on January 30, 2003, 03:51:31 PM

Cool!
a nice 82 Mb download...