You may not remember but we asked the Wasteland 2 guys back in august about Wasteland 1 & 2 release information for Linux, we now know the original will come to Linux too!
Brian Fargo tweeted yesterday to give people the good news:
Did I mention that the re-release of Wasteland 1 would also be on OSX and Linux?
— Brian Fargo (@BrianFargo) October 20, 2013
About Wasteland
Wasteland is a critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic role-playing video game first published by Electronic Arts in 1988.[1] The game was designed by Brian Fargo, Michael A. Stackpole, Ken St. Andre and Alan Pavlish, and programmed by Pavlish for Interplay Productions. Wasteland is set in a world decades after nuclear holocaust, which has turned Earth into the "wasteland" where survival is the main objective. The game's setting and concept would become the basis for Interplay's later game, Fallout, which itself would extend into a successful series.
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Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 was kickstarted thanks to a massive amount of backers in which inXile gained nearly three million dollars for their project.
Quoting: Quote from TheCycoONEQuoting: Quote from BumadarQuoting: Quote from AnonymousQuoting: Quote from BumadarAlso available as abandonware and runs perfect in dosbox
You obviously don't know what abandonware means... Anyway the new release has a number of improvements over the original. Personally I'd appreciate not having to pull out the booklet for the flavor text.
I do know what it means, but the simpel fact is the game is available on many of the abandonware sites thus my comment stands.
Bumadar, you're confused. Abandonware has never been legal. Some people don't consider it unethical because there are no legal alternatives for acquiring a particular product, but the publisher could still sue. Now that Wasteland 1 is for sale again, any ethical defense is lost, and downloading it from an abandonware site is no different from downloading GTA V off a warez site.
Yeah... but, Bumadar never said it was legal. He just said it was available on abandonware sites. So "confused" is the wrong term there. :)
But nice clarification. I actually thought "abandonware" was a real, legal thing, not that I've ever been interested in using it. Good to know.
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