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Title: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 21, 2008, 09:54:49 pm
Is it a digital download, store bought or can it be zipped?  :confused:

-Please if some one has allready asked this let me know-
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Droid803 on April 21, 2008, 10:29:19 pm
:welcomesilver:

Get FS Open Here:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html)

Then download FSPort here:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,39.0.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,39.0.html)

I would guess that is your best bet if you want to play the original game, complete with SCP enhancements.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: blowfish on April 21, 2008, 10:34:19 pm
The installer should install fsport IIRC.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Droid803 on April 21, 2008, 10:45:08 pm
Oh right, yea, you can choose in the list. forgot  :ick:
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 22, 2008, 02:31:40 am
Is it a digital download, store bought or can it be zipped?  :confused:

-Please if some one has allready asked this let me know-
If it's the actual game, you know, "legal" 'n stuff, with cases and manuals and CDs, go to eBay or something. But if you just want to play, go with Turey's Installer. It's the simple way.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Titan on April 22, 2008, 08:42:41 am
plus, it's completely legal to do it without owning the actually game. Freespace is freeware/open source software, nowadays.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 22, 2008, 08:47:57 am
/me slaps Titan around with a large trout

Baka. FreeSpace isn't freeware, nor is it open source. The game engine is open source. The FreeSpace Source Code Project (SCP) develops the engine. And that engine (FSO) is open source. But the actual game is still not freeware. All the models, textures, interface art, voices, sounds, the whole ****... it's still proprietary. The reason why we can have Turey's Installer do all the things it does is because we shut up. We don't go shouting "Woo! FreeSpace is free!" to Interplay. If we keep it down, Interplay doesn't care and we can continue to do this. But if we raise a fuss, they might do some unspeakable things, legalwise.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Hellstryker on April 22, 2008, 09:01:45 am
* Wonders why when cleaning his fish that it has internal bruises in the patern of titans face
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Getter Robo G on April 22, 2008, 09:41:30 am
I sense new people are not reading the stickies...Again...
Title: Thanks
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 22, 2008, 05:15:19 pm
Ok thanks
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Polpolion on April 22, 2008, 07:16:15 pm
Is it a digital download, store bought or can it be zipped?

Sorry, but I'm afraid that FS2 is available only in an analogue download. :p
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 22, 2008, 09:38:23 pm
OK Ive downloaded it...but its taken over 3 hours and its still downloading the needed items and the current KB is 9639 and increasing. Is this normal for my computer ( I have a Windows Vista)
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: blowfish on April 22, 2008, 09:43:30 pm
 :eek2: What kind of internet connection do you have?  Three hours for 9 megabytes???!!!  That's nothing.  I don't know how much space a fresh install takes, though i'd estimate it around a couple of gigabytes.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 22, 2008, 09:45:22 pm
Its a modem and the speed is as fast as a DSL can get.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 22, 2008, 09:49:45 pm
Thing is I've extracted it from the inter net and extracted it and now im installing it. And that's what's taking so long
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 23, 2008, 06:25:33 am
inter net
*smirky smirk* j/k.........

Is 9639 the connection speed or the downloaded file size? :confused:
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Jake2447 on April 23, 2008, 06:50:32 am
inter net
*smirky smirk* j/k.........

Is 9639 the connection speed or the downloaded file size? :confused:

That would be a killer connection speed in anything but bytes.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 23, 2008, 06:52:39 am
Could be bits...............MY phone-conn-web-walk thing (with sidebar gadget) displays in bits :p
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: starlord on April 23, 2008, 08:26:14 am
Heh, I recall the days I got MY freespace ( conflict: freespace, as I'm french)  :P

It was in a virgin store in lyon. you know one of those white label boxes. there was the whole saga inside: FS1, silent threat and FS2. Best thing is they were new and yet priced €9. A real bargain.

The only thing I can reproach to my freespace pack is the lack of FS1/ST voice briefs (absent in the french version). The fact that more than half of the silent threat single missions (including the destily of peace) weren't here (they must have had problems in translating), and the fact that FS2 could have sported also the op templar campaign like in the SOTY edition. Otherwise, real smooth (FS2 stayed in english, though. IMO it never got translated).

For those who don't know, the ST single missions and OP templar campaign can perfectly be asked for in the forums. they'll be sent with no problems.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 23, 2008, 09:50:00 pm
Ok Well after a day of downloading it I f inally get the thing installed, but My computer acts as if it dosent exsist. When it finished downloading I clicked next and the downlaoder went blank, so I hit the exit button scince next was greyed out....

Did I do something wrong?

Sorry about all this, I'm just learning the downloading files and modding games. :nervous:
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Jake2447 on April 23, 2008, 11:06:55 pm
Ok Well after a day of downloading it I f inally get the thing installed, but My computer acts as if it dosent exsist. When it finished downloading I clicked next and the downlaoder went blank, so I hit the exit button scince next was greyed out....

Did I do something wrong?

Sorry about all this, I'm just learning the downloading files and modding games. :nervous:

no there is a blank page after everything is installed
all the files should be in /freespace
you had to manually create the directory, so i hope you know where they are
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 24, 2008, 07:42:35 am
Ok Well after a day of downloading it I f inally get the thing installed, but My computer acts as if it dosent exsist. When it finished downloading I clicked next and the downlaoder went blank, so I hit the exit button scince next was greyed out....

Did I do something wrong?

Sorry about all this, I'm just learning the downloading files and modding games. :nervous:
There's a file called Launcher.exe somewhere in your computer. Use it.
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 24, 2008, 07:36:50 pm
Ohhh ok I thought it would load a launcher onto my desktop
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Ambassador Kosh on April 24, 2008, 07:42:49 pm
Ummm on second thought......

If its the hard drive C (which is my main hard drive and stores nearly all files)
Then it is not there. Perhaps I should reinstall it?
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: blowfish on April 24, 2008, 07:43:59 pm
Where did you tell the installer to install it?  It should be somewhere like c:\games\freespace or something...
Title: Re: Where can I find freespace (the game)
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 25, 2008, 09:20:07 am
Use the search function of Windows to look for anything that says freespace. Hopefully you'll find the folder where FreeSpace has been installed.