Subj : Rott Source Code
To : All
From : Bryan Turner
Date : Fri Dec 20 2002 12:49 pm
Hello All!
Taken from Apogee1.com written by Joe S.
RISE OF THE SOURCE CODE
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And you thought it would never happen...
Today we're doing something I bet most everyone out there thought we'd never
do. No, it's not Duke Nukem Forever, but something some folks on the net have
been asking us to do for ages. Today we're releasing the source code to Rise
of the Triad! The source is being released under the GPL license, and we
still retain copyright on the game (plus we still sell Rise of the Triad), but
folks have been asking for something like this for a long time, and here it is.
We are dedicating the release of the Rise of the Triad Source code to our late
friend and Rise of the Triad programmer William Scarboro, who died tragically
back in early August of 2002. I'm sure if he were still with us, William would
be happy to see this out there, and see what folks might do with the code.
In the archive are some thoughts about Rise of the Triad by Tom Hall (the
game's producer), and Scott Miller (Apogee/3DR CEO/Founder). You can check out
the readme here before downloading the entire archive. In addition to this
file, we have several other ROTT related downlods available - check out our
ROTT page for the full list.
The folks reading this who aren't programmers probably won't have any interest
in this, but those who are programmers might want to check it out. You can
download the file (which is roughly 4Mb zipped) here:
Fileplanet
3D Realms FTP
Enjoy! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone. See ya next year!
UPDATE: Just realized that 8 years ago tomorrow (the 21st) was the release of
v1.0 sharware of Rise of the Triad online. This source release was released
almost 8 years to the day that we originally released the game in the first
place! :)
This file was just hatched into the Apogee FDN.
Bryan Turner (Bat) Support Shareware! Pirates Suck!
[email protected] http://www.vbsoft.org
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