Dune II Source/Download

[stefanhendriks]

true, but i still am interested in the source :)

Anyway, this quote tells enough about my activities last period:

EA will not give you permission to use (any part of) the Dune II source

code. (They appreciate that you have shared your intentions with them.)

However, they do urge you to refrain from further pursuing them.

;)

[Timsvs]

just an idea, probably a stupid one but here goes...

y not get the source code for another RTS game? a simple one like C&C1, and just turn it into dune? wouldn't be too hard?

[ken124578]

They already looked into giving away the source, but they're having difficulties with the licences, so, no :P

[vidiware]

why not cnc?

[Frodo]

probably the same reasons.

[stefanhendriks]

i don't know about C&C. But the fact is, they do not want to release any source at all; sad but true.

[exatreide]

i say we all keep emailing them, do the thousand biting ants tactic, till they finaly yield and give it up :)

[ken124578]

Uhm... WS = closed.

[Gobalopper]

Anyone else notice that they just released GTA for free? To bad we still don't have Dune II.

[stefanhendriks]

Dune II source is out of the question. Any mail i send, i won't get a reply anymore. I sure hope i don't get a letter from EA these days... sueing me and such. Yikes. :-[

[vidiware]

Gob Where does they say that?

Where can i d/l it?

Well sue you for asking a question? Then the could sue me too...

Well with norwegian law, i would win but i could not be a millionair on it...

[Gobalopper]

I saw it over at Blues News on Friday. Should be on Rockstar's website but its a 300MB+ download so expect a slow download.

[Dunenewt]

Why are you trying to get the Dune II code of EA when it was Virgin Interactive who made it

[Davidu]

Why don't you raise funds to buy it?

The people who own a bank account (I don't) can donate...

Something like "support the modding".

[Gobalopper]

EA bought Westwood so they own Dune II not Virgin.

And Dune II is not for sale, at least not for any amount we could afford.

[Gobalopper]

id is now selling Keen and Spear of Destiny games. Why couldn't Westwood do this?

http://www.idsoftware.com/games/vintage/ck-vorticons/

http://www.idsoftware.com/games/vintage/ck-galaxy/

http://www.idsoftware.com/games/wolfenstein/spear/

Looking over 3D Realms site they also offer a lot of their older titles:

http://www.3drealms.com/prices.html

[XTF]

15 dollar is quite much for such old games. And they don't include source code, do they?

[vidiware]

No... but you can buy doom and then use the source (u need original IWADs) to develop own doom games and doom engine based games

[stefanhendriks]

I downloaded the sources of:

Doom (all versions i think)

Heretic (same as Doom engine)

Quake 1/2 (also WinQuake, GLQuake, etc)

these are all available at the id software website. All it takes is time.

[vidiware]

yes.. but you still need teh wads... and thay are illegal to copy.,.. unless you makes your own iwads

[darkmage]

why not ask for EA to release the source for say emperor battle for dune. that would be a much better thing to ask for. OR better yet... ask if instead of releasing the code as open source, ask if you can setup a small group which will sign Non disclosure agreementws, who will port the games to other platforms such as linux :D

[Davidu]

MAN! they don't want to release the Dune2 SDK! how do you think they would release the EBfD SDK?

[stefanhendriks]

I think everything related to 'dune' will have troubles to get released. Perhaps C&C Generals has a better chance ;) ::)

[vidiware]

can you ask them?

[Davidu]

It's way too new...

You'd have a better chance with the old C&C games.

Or, you could try it with Blizzard. Maybe they'll release the WarCraft (I or II) engine code. It's worth a try.