Dune II Source/Download

Davidu · January 17, 2003

Well, I see everybody is bound to use the Dune2 engine. There are MODs for Dune2000 and Emperor. Even a WraCraft3 MOD.

Only strategies (I like stategies). But Dune is not only strategy. It's exploration, well, you could use some other engines to make Dune mods: Half-Life, Unreal, NetImmerse(Morrowind), Gothic, etc.

You can code strategies here as well but it would be more fun to actually talk to the fremen, the Atreides or any other guy/thing in dune.

Well? What do you say?

vidiware · January 18, 2003

If you want a quite newbie at you programming team, count me in!

Davidu · January 18, 2003

Oh! don't worry, when I'm going to need people to work with this is one of the first places I'm going to look. But right now I have things to do (school! -damn it!). But in summer I'll be free.

vidiware · January 24, 2003

Oh any progress gob...

What about a Nickname campaign? But we will not start this without gobs permission as it can look quite similar to spam

Davidu · January 24, 2003

A NICKNAME campaign??

What exactly is that?

Gobalopper · January 24, 2003

Nothing yet, I will email Chris again.

Davidu · January 25, 2003

Keep trying...

Never give up.

;D

Ammon · February 4, 2003

Yes!!!

Never give up! :)

Davidu · February 7, 2003

Anything new?

Frodo · February 7, 2003

i don't think so, westwood has closed it's doors

Gobalopper · February 10, 2003

Well I talked with Louis and he says they looked into the open source option for all their old titles and it wouldn't work.

They can't offer it for download for free since they have to pay licencing fees. So it looks like it won't happen.

vidiware · February 10, 2003

Do they have to pay fees, because its dune? ???

Gobalopper · February 10, 2003

Probably, he didn't say what licence fee it was or how much.

stefanhendriks · February 11, 2003

Hmm, if some parts cost them money, couldn't they just release pieces of source code which they can release!? So they won;'t violate any copyright / license stuff?

I would be more then happy to see alteast some code, just for fun to see how those guys coded it.

Gobalopper · February 12, 2003

He didn't really go into any depth on why they didn't release the source code just that they looked into it and it wouldn't work out. If you want I can send his email address to you Stefan. You know more about Dune II then any other non-Westwood person. :)

stefanhendriks · February 13, 2003

rofl, perhaps. I'd like to give it a shot, but even then i think i won't make a difference.

stefanhendriks · February 14, 2003

i sent a mail... you will get an update at this post whenever i get a reply. :)

stefanhendriks · February 14, 2003

reply i got:

I'm sorry; we can not release source code from our older products. This
is especially true of licensed products.

however, i do not give up yet.

Davidu · February 14, 2003

That has nothing to do with DUNE. It's the source code for a RTS.

They could be more open-minded.

Gobalopper · February 14, 2003

Good luck Stefan. :D

Gobalopper · February 14, 2003

We aren't talking about where we can download it.

stefanhendriks · February 15, 2003

We really can not release the source in part or in whole.

Man, he is tough!

vidiware · February 15, 2003

Well

Maybe he have been manipulated by those scary EA guys...!

What about command & conquer 1?

stefanhendriks · February 16, 2003

I sent this, did not get a reply yet. Included is his latest reply:

Why is it so difficult to release a (very outdated) source code (or partions of it)? Even if its licensed i don't see a real good reason yet. Even ID released their source code of several games, Quake 1, Quake 2, DOOM (1/2), Heretic etc. All those sources where even bought by several companies to create own games (Half-Life for instance, modified Quake 1 engine).
Releasing the Dune 2 source (which is all i ask for, actually, not only me but a lot of people who are still supporting it and anxious to learn from it) would not harm anything at all. The only thing that it could cost is a bit of time to sort out what could be released and what not. Secondly, releasing the source would make it possible for other programmers to compile (with some work) an updated EXE file which could work with the original Dune 2 package and make people play this out-dated game on Windows machines , networking and whatnot. Dune 2 is still very popular and known. An upgrade like this would make it even more attractive. It would not increase sell rates (if that is all that counts) ofcourse but it would make WW (or better said EA Pacific) a lot more 'friendly' towards those who want to learn from very out dated sources.
Tell me, what real harm could it possibly be?
-Stefan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Castle, Louis" <SORRY, CANT GIVE THAT ONE ;)>
To: "S. Hendriks" <s.hendriks2@chello.nl>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:05 PM
Subject: RE: Source code Dune II
We really can not release the source in part or in whole.

XTF · February 24, 2003

I think it's easier to write your own Dune 2 then to get the original source code.

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