[Web] Small Q&A about Quake2 for Amiga (Hyperions version). | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Dec-2002 10:13 GMT by M.Andersson | 22 comments View flat View list |
The swedish Amigamagazine Azine has made a Q&A with Hans-Joerg Frieden (Hyperion) about their Quake2 port availiable online. You can read it here.
The Q&A was originally published in Azine #2.
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Posted by flop on 12-Dec-2002 10:07 GMT | Ups |
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Posted by Anonymous on 12-Dec-2002 10:08 GMT | ddd |
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Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 12-Dec-2002 10:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Anonymous): Just for the record: the second CD no longer contains the mods, due to legal reasons. |
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Posted by darklite on 12-Dec-2002 11:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): >Just for the record: the second CD no longer contains the mods, due to legal
>reasons.
Please elaborate.
Aren't the mods also under the GPL? |
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Posted by Björn Hagström on 12-Dec-2002 11:09 GMT | Comment 3 & 4 has the same IP (134.58.253.129). Wierd.
/Björn |
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Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 12-Dec-2002 11:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (darklite): Mods can't be under GPL by definition.
They are governed by the Quake 2 EULA from ID Software.
Which is also the reason why we can't distribute the Quake 2 port with the mods on the same CD.
The ID EULA only allows distribution from end-user to end-user directly (ie not via dealers).
ID Software was quite insistent that we drop the mods from the main CD. |
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Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 12-Dec-2002 11:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (Björn Hagström): Not really. We are using the same server.
There are more people doing so that I'm aware of. |
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Posted by Ron van Herk on 12-Dec-2002 11:22 GMT | Hi,
If you wanna see it in action, check the messe-video btw. I had it running on my machine (a Pegasos, sorry Ben :-/ ) and it attracted quite some attention and enthousiasm! Great work!
Cheers,
Ron |
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Posted by M.Andersson on 12-Dec-2002 12:11 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): Thanks for clarifying this!
(It made me wonder when I recieved a 3rd CD with the mods as I was told they would be on the Amiga-bin CD by Hans-Joerg)
/M.Andersson |
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Posted by Rimmer on 12-Dec-2002 18:39 GMT | So how do you get hold of the mods now if they are not included on the CD? |
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Small Q&A about Quake2 for Amiga (Hyperions version). : Comment 13 of 22 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 12-Dec-2002 22:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Rimmer): The Mods are on the Mods CD which you either get from the dealer or you can
request from Hyperion Entertainment, if the dealer did not include a Mod CD (free CD, available as long as stock lasts, only 1 CD per Quake 2 Amiga Buyer). They're just not on the same CD like the Quake 2 Amiga Executable.
There is an installer script included to make installing the Mods easy.
Steffen |
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Posted by CodeSmith on 12-Dec-2002 23:37 GMT | In reply to Comment 13 (Steffen Haeuser): I confess to not having bought the game yet (I'll be getting it as soon as I receive OS4 as part of my Earlybird purchase), but if the mods CD is supposed to be free-as-in-beer, why not put the ISO in your web site and let dealers and broadband users get it themselves? (you could walk into your local Amiga shop with a blank CD and walk out with a mod CD). Is there some legal reason why you can't do this? |
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Posted by Anonymous on 12-Dec-2002 23:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 6 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): This is the CD which you'd already mastered, and could under no circumstances change right, Ben ? Which was why you couldn't include the Quake 2 source code, right? The source code which would easily fit onto CD2 and which you in fact explicitly chose not to include in order to run roughshod over user's rights [see also ongoing problems with Aminet]
See previous ANN article where Ben lies, then lies again, then after being shown to have lied claims it was a "misunderstanding" (that's right, Mr Hermans is a lawyer but he can't understand a clear and explicit license agreement until it is explained by ANN readers) and makes up a new and even bigger lie which he has now all but admitted to in this "correction". |
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Posted by CodeSmith on 13-Dec-2002 02:05 GMT | In reply to Comment 16 (q): Sweet! thanks :) |
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Posted by Hammer on 13-Dec-2002 06:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Anonymous): Why the hostility towards Mr Herman? This shouldn't be an issue in this thread... |
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Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 13-Dec-2002 08:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Anonymous): We're complying fully with the GPL license and explicitly reaffirmed by the FSF.
Anybody who wants to obtain the source-code CD (which contains the Quake 2 source-code as well as the source-code of numerous mods) can do so.
Some have actually already done so since quite some time.
The EULA issue regarding the mods is completely unrelated to the GPL issue and incidentally, no Quake 2 CD was ever shipped to an CD user with the mods on it.
So no "remastering" took place. |
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Posted by Stefan Burström on 13-Dec-2002 08:12 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Anonymous): Mr silly anonymous,
Why don't you spell it out instead: Please Mr Ben, lend me a CD so I can pirate it for whatever reasons I wish.
I cannot understand why idiots like you exists! Go read the GPL before you come back. Also by make sure to read Mr Stallmans free software philosophy before you open your mouth again. Most of us are sick of you anonymous covards who doesn't have a clue what you are talking about!
regards,
Stefan Burström |
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Posted by derf on 13-Dec-2002 09:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Anonymous): well i suppose theres only one thing for this ;)
PROVE IT!
:D
now for the rest of us sane people, what is so wrong with downloading mods ????
i have done it for years, but i suppose that is the PC way of doing it so must be bad ;) |
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Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 13-Dec-2002 15:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (CodeSmith): CodeSmith: I think by releasing already 15 Quake 2 Mods for free download (and two more
coming every week) I do not have to listen to accusations that I'd not do something
for the "Free"-Community. In no way I am required to make anything for free
download. And after the way people from the "free" community acted towards me
I am definitely less inclined to release ANYTHING - whatever it is - for free
download.
Steffen Haeuser |
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