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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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466 points chocmake | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 03:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source
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modeless ◴[20 Nov 24 05:32 UTC] No.42191063[source]▶
I wish they would GPL it like Quake. Even if it was missing some proprietary dependencies I bet the community could replace them.

I recently helped port ioquake3 to the web, complete with UDP multiplayer, and set up an online demo using the internet archive's copy of the Quake III demo: https://thelongestyard.link It would be cool to be able to do the same with Unreal Tournament.

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1. dmead ◴[20 Nov 24 05:46 UTC] No.42191121[source]▶
Ioquake was helpful for the open Jedi project get an open source version of jk3 working.

https://github.com/OpenJediProject/OJP

I'm sure there is some small group of UT people that would gladly keep it alive in a similar fashion.