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Re:Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten by avolcano on Friday November 30, 2012 @06:54AM (#4852842)
No copyright issues; it's based off of OpenDUNE: http://www.opendune.org/
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Re:Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten by Yuioup on Friday November 30, 2012 @07:03AM (#4852869)
The source-code is probably based off OpenDUNE but I'm pretty sure the art isn't. They'll be taken down for the art for sure ...
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Re:Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten by ergo14 on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:56PM (#4854787)
Dune 2 was released as freeware if memory serves me right. I know they still can send them C&D letter, but I don't think westwood/ea will bother.
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Re:Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten by csarva on Friday November 30, 2012 @09:14PM (#4856553)
Yep, looks like they just recreated the game engine. You still need a copy of the original Dune 2 data files to play the game.
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Re:Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten by k33n on Friday November 30, 2012 @09:45AM (#4853402)
Haters gonna hate.
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Re:Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten by jcl on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:24PM (#4855264)
As far as I can tell from their wiki, OpenDUNE was created by disassembling the original game and recoding the assembly in C. I wouldn't say the copyright issue is clear-cut, here.
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