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  1. June 4th, 2002, 09:23 AM #11
    RiOtEr
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    yeah the doom code is around somewhere hehe and also rtcw code is around as well i saw it on some web page somewhere so im sure you can find it
    but i think they relese the source so that modders find their life 100X easiser
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    http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/files/files.shtml
    i found it after a bit of searching
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  2. June 4th, 2002, 05:09 PM #12
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    Thats neat. Never thought many big companies would show a source.
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  3. June 4th, 2002, 05:40 PM #13
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    It has it's drawbacks. Apparently it allows people to create cheats and stuff more easily. But the benefits are great. Releasingthe game open source can really keep a game community alive! aka as quake
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  4. June 4th, 2002, 06:42 PM #14
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    Something that might interest some of you: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/index.html -- Eric S. Raymond has a few essays on open source there, including one called "The Case of the Quake Cheats".
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  5. June 4th, 2002, 07:01 PM #15
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    Yeah I download the Castle Wolfenstein source code, well, started downloading it. Then I realised that I just wasn't arsed...
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  6. June 5th, 2002, 04:38 AM #16
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    jethro: gotta be a Big source code...

    The Lith company already got back to me...

    They said the sites are under maintenance and gave me an ftp link
    ftp://ftp.lith.com/pub/blood2/

    It is true that the open-source makes it easier on others to make mods and so, but it also gives the lesser public a chance to understand (I guess...)
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  7. June 5th, 2002, 07:59 AM #17
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    as sombody said before, the problem is that anybody and their mother can easily make cheats for it now...but its still damn cool of them to do that...lets people see the inner workings and maybe get started learning how to make their own games :-D
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  8. June 5th, 2002, 12:20 PM #18
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    isn't giving away the source, the same as giving away the game? that can't be Profitable....
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  9. June 5th, 2002, 01:39 PM #19
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    Noia: companys tend to only release source long after they are going to be getting any sales revinues.
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  10. June 5th, 2002, 01:41 PM #20
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    Not necessarily. It depends on a few things like whether the game is still selling and what you need to compile the source. Also, what lisence they release it under is pretty important.
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