It is being continued under the name Project Inferno. They are just removing the Warcraft II specific parts. You can check the progress and chat with developers at #projectinferno on irc.freenode.net. Also, the packages are still available in Debian unstable. I downloaded the latest version last night. I also have the source if you are interested in building your own package. William
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:16, Lee wrote: > Bad news fellow TriLUG gamers :-( > -Lee > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard | > | from the calling-it-quits dept. | > | posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 21, @09:30 (rts) | > | http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/21/1323249 | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > [0]mandreiana writes "As of June 20th, [1]FreeCraft is shut down. The > development team received a cease and desist order due to the name > 'FreeCraft' causing possible confusion with the names StarCraft and > WarCraft, and also some of the ideas within the engine were too similar > to WarCraft 2. There will be no more updates to this game, and it is no > longer available for download." Way to go, [2]Blizzard, now the only > competitors to worry about are the ones who can afford lawyers and > actually hold competing market share. Of course, not using a *Craft for a > game project might have kept it under the radar a while longer. > > Discuss this story at: > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=03/06/21/1323249 > > Links: > 0. http://marius.galuna.ro > 1. http://happypenguin.org/newsitem?id=3801 > 2. http://www.blizzard.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + _ _ _ + + _ __ (_) |__ | | ___ _ __ __ _ ___ ___ + +| '_ \| | '_ \| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _` / __|/ _ \ + +| |_) | | | | | | (_) | |_) | (_| \__ \ __/ + +| .__/|_|_| |_|_|\___/| .__/ \__,_|___/\___| + +|_| |_| + + + + William R. Gomeringer + + cell: 919.260.4334 + + web: http://pihlopase.mine.nu + + location: Hood, Chapel Hill, NC + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
