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A comment on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?.

Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by EamonnMR on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:41AM (#18635729)
Mostly game engines I enjoyed. The Escape Velocity Engine for one, though clones exist. The Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 engine is this crazy mix of voxels, dynamic lighting, height-mapped terrain all in a fundamentally 2d environment which is really cool. I would have loved to read Starcraft's source code, but I imagine that'll never happen now with Remastered.
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by pippolong on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:04PM (#18636163)
Ambrosia Software just vanished. Escape Velocity was one of the finest game concepts ever made IMO. Could have become an epic MMO game.
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by laaph on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:24PM (#18636291)
You should check out Endless Sky for a good open source remake of Escape Velocity.

http://endless-sky.github.io

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by EamonnMR on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:24PM (#18669423)
I have put many hours into that fine game. There's also NAEV

https://github.com/naev/naev

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