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T H E W A R B E G I N S
FreeCraft - A free fantasy real time strategy game engine
What is FreeCraft?
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FreeCraft was formerly known as ALE Clone or Clone.
It is a clone of a famous top one sold game for the PC and console.
A realtime, fantasy strategy game for UNIX with X or Console or any Win32.
It comes without graphics, sounds and documentation.
You need the original game CD or the expansion CD to use FreeCraft.
(With over 1 million sold copies this shouldn't be a big problem)
What does FreeCraft?
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All graphics and sounds are supported, you can walk, build and collect
resources and attack.
What is new?
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Many bug fixes. (like always)
Can I help?
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YES! I still need help! (No artists out there?)
There are many open projects:
Campain editor, Map editor, Sound editor, Ai editor.
Network code, AI code. (very important to get a better playable versions)
Make own graphics, music and sounds.
Debugging the existing code.
If you want to help, download it and contact me.
What did FreeCraft need?
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Linux X11 with 16bit server or Win32 with 16bit videomode, libpng, libz and
the original game CD or expansion CD.
Optional libguile, libpthreads, guile-gtk and gtk.
Copying-policy:
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Artistic license.
Is there a home page?
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You can look at my home page, containing mostly FreeCraft stuff.
http://user.exit.de/johns
Where download FreeCraft?
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ATTENTION: sunsite is renamed to metalab!
I have uploaded the sources to ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming.
It should go to ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/strategy.
The name is freecraft-"DATE".tar.gz.
(This version freecraft-000402.tar.gz)
or from my home page:
http://user.exit.de/johns/
You find there also pre-releases of the next stable version.
Much fun,
The FreeCraft Project (aleclone@FreeCraft.org) and Johns (johns98@gmx.net)