Yes folks, Star Control II open sourced.
Basically, the game was developed by Toys For Bob and published by Activision. Everyone likes the game, so it became open source. They LOST the PC source code, but still have the 3DO source code, so have been porting that to PC. Aparently, the 3d0 version has better aspect ratios and more features, so it’s generally accepted as `a good thing`.
0.1 alpha is released in source, and precompiled for Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS and Win32 architectures. Plans for MacOS 10 and other SDL capable operating systems are in there too.
If 1.0 stable ever releases, they’ll consider branching the code for a multiplayer/network version.
Oh, and they own all of the game, except the name `Star Control` so they can’t call it Star Control II, rather it’s `The Ur Quan Masters` which was the subtitle of the original game.
The End.
