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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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465 points chocmake | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 03:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.94s | source
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notamy ◴[20 Nov 24 04:16 UTC] No.42190783[source]▶
Fingers crossed UT2004 will end up in the Archive eventually. I still boot it up to play occasionally because nothing else has scratched the arena shooter itch that well.
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1. snarfy ◴[20 Nov 24 05:32 UTC] No.42191064[source]▶
UT2004 is on archive.org already, fully patched with some modern additions.

I'm very hopeful this will get Epic's blessing too.

What is strange is that they approve of the archive.org download, instead of say, OldUnreal hosting it themselves. The archive.org uploader could update it with malware. It would be nice if they allow OldUnreal to host.

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2. bayindirh ◴[20 Nov 24 05:50 UTC] No.42191135[source]▶
UT2004 shipped with its Linux binaries in the 3rd disc. I remember playing it a ton until migrating to 64bit system.

Wish they GPL that one, too, so we can build a 64bit version of that.