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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Inquisitor on February 10, 2004, 08:26:21 am

Title: Interesting, vaguely related bit
Post by: Inquisitor on February 10, 2004, 08:26:21 am

Allegiance Source released:

http://research.microsoft.com/research/allegiance/

Probably already been discussed in the general forums, but i thought it was an interesting move for Microsoft to make.

Go figure :)

Title: Interesting, vaguely related bit
Post by: Bobboau on February 10, 2004, 08:33:23 am

WTF does it have that makes it 511 MB!

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Post by: Drew on February 10, 2004, 08:34:09 am

MS actually released source code...

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Post by: KARMA on February 10, 2004, 08:47:18 am

511 mb???
have they released some artwork too or what???

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Post by: J3Vr6 on February 10, 2004, 09:23:45 am

I can't find any information on this game, was it good?  Was it a flight simulator?

Title: Interesting, vaguely related bit
Post by: KARMA on February 10, 2004, 09:35:17 am

it was a multiplayer teambased strategic space sim.
Never played at it, but I've heard that it was very good. I seem to remember that you had to pay to play on the servers, but it doesn't seem now, and the dedicated server is free to download.
I'm trying to see if there is a community somewhere...

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Post by: aldo_14 on February 10, 2004, 09:45:51 am

http://www.freeallegiance.org/

Noticed this yesterday - there's a link to dl the client and soforth.

EDIT;  Team-based.  Sounds interesting.....

Title: Interesting, vaguely related bit
Post by: Inquisitor on February 10, 2004, 10:20:14 am

They released the game assets for free a while back if memory serves, now comes the source. It's some kind of MMO/pay to play game. Haven't played it, but the people who have swore by it.

MS, go figure :)

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Post by: KARMA on February 10, 2004, 10:37:51 am

Iit's described as abandonware btw, so I think you don't have to pay anymore to play (but obviously not being supported it'll be hard to find servers, I think).
From what I remember of the descriptions of the game it was close to the space sim of my dreams (teambased, RTS...).

Ehy can't you just copy/paste the client code into freespace open ?:lol:
kidding obviously but I'd really love to see the same features here:)

Title: Interesting, vaguely related bit
Post by: Zarax on February 10, 2004, 10:53:59 am

Well, well, well MS started opening some stuff seriously...
It will take years but you will get more nice surprises from them...

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Post by: aldo_14 on February 10, 2004, 11:07:20 am

Quote

Originally posted by KARMA
Iit's described as abandonware btw, so I think you don't have to pay anymore to play (but obviously not being supported it'll be hard to find servers, I think).

The link i gave mentioned a free server, BTW.  So that's something.......

Title: Interesting, vaguely related bit
Post by: Inquisitor on February 10, 2004, 03:11:14 pm

Yeah, there have been player run servers for a while now, it's worth checking out :)

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Post by: demon442 on February 10, 2004, 10:29:03 pm

I'll have to give this little baby a shot.  Maybe I can find a game that runs well on 56K...

Title: Interesting, vaguely related bit
Post by: Taristin on February 11, 2004, 08:28:26 am

I'm DLing the game... If for no other reason than to steal the material maps, then fine. :p