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    Question Open Source Games etc?

    "Free" being my favourite word, I got thinking about open source programs.

    Apart from operating systems, web browsers and word processors etc, what other open source programs can you get. Can you get games for example ?

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    You can get everything! Have a good old nose around source forge and you will see!
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    are you sure you don't mean www.sourceforge.net
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    there are a few full open-source games (Flightgear flight sim, Tux Racer, some racing game I forgot the name of), a whole stack of little ones (nothing really more complex than solitaire type games)

    what's more common are open-source engines, for closed-source data files (art, sounds, maps, etc). for example, quake 1 & 2 are open source engines, but the levels etc aren't - so there are a number of replacement quake executables such as Tenebrae, which rely on data from retail Quake. all the lucasarts point & click games can be played using the open-source ScummVM engine, and the closed-souce games Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen have been released as freeware (not open-source) to play with ScummVM.

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