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Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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466 points chocmake | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 03:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.635s | 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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deafpolygon ◴[20 Nov 24 06:12 UTC] No.42191223[source]▶
Im willing to bet the code for UT is being used for Fortnite.
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pests ◴[20 Nov 24 06:16 UTC] No.42191242[source]▶
My first introduction to Unreal was via the "Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition" right around the year 2000. I fondly remember some of those maps (Facing Worlds for one) but to think that lineage ends up at Fornite is crazy to me.
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1. iakov ◴[20 Nov 24 08:01 UTC] No.42191700[source]▶
Oh man, I loved that game as a kid. I did not have internet back then, but I didn’t care - I spent hours playing against bots. I still remember the voice taunts and callouts (“I slaughtered that guy!”) and creative maps like ctf_face. Then there were the built in gameplay mods like insta-gib and low gravity, fun guns like Redeemer - kept me glued to the screen for hours. I did not understand why people are playing CS at the computer clubs - UT was a much better and bigger game! Thanks for a trip down the memory lane. Good, simple times.
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2. zelos ◴[20 Nov 24 08:14 UTC] No.42191750[source]▶
"I did not understand why people are playing CS at the computer clubs..."

I was the same. UT was so much fun - bouncing flak cannon shrapnel round corners! But my LAN group all wanted to play CS or that UT mod that was similar (Tactical Ops?).

3. pests ◴[20 Nov 24 08:16 UTC] No.42191762[source]▶
I don't think I knew too much about computers or gaming at that age to figure all that out. I just played the base mode.

My introduction to programming was thru a different game (Subspace VIE, a MMO on dialup back in the 90s later community-remade as Continuum) when squad had a login page at a domain. I really wondered how example.com/?login worked and that led me to where I am today.