Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve always been curious… are there concrete definitions of “abandonware” in the various major jurisdictions? Or is it just a loose concept that remains legally dubious? I feel like “Adopt an Abandonware” would be a pretty great source of meaningful, educational, and productive projects for devs with extra cycles or looking to refine skills.
There is no legal definition of abandonware and everyone in the community knows and understands this. It's just a case of "the lesser evil": preserving games when nobody who owns them cares enough about them to sell them or make sure they can still be run. But legal? No.
I think few people would say it's a "lesser evil" but something that is morally fine and should be legal (when no money is changing hands).
If you were, say, selling abandonware that's much more of a murky area, but just downloading a copy or giving people a copy of some data that is no longer sold - whoever has ended up with the copyright shouldn't be able to complain if they are not actually making it available for purchase - they shouldn't be able to claim any loss since by not selling it they are not being deprived of any revenue.
Of course, part of this is only a problem because copyright terms became absurdly long - if we had sane copyright terms like strictly 25 or 30 years from publication a lot of this stuff would be public domain by now anyway.
Re: Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
#53FYI, the original game can be purchased for few dollars and runs fine on Windows with coop and all - tested not so long ago and had a blast playing it
I haven't tried coop, but it actually works reasonably well on PlayOnMac as well, at least for single-player.
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#55I wish Jazz had been more popular. I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2, and I believe there were plans to make a third, but they decided it wouldn’t sell enough copies. If anyone here can recommend platformers similar to Jazz that run on a Mac, I’d love to play them. I never got into shooters or 3D games, but always enjoyed platformers like Mario and Contra, and Jazz felt perfect for me.
Mega Drive and SNES emulator, then you can play an entire library of the golden age of platformers.
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#56I wish Jazz had been more popular. I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2, and I believe there were plans to make a third, but they decided it wouldn’t sell enough copies. If anyone here can recommend platformers similar to Jazz that run on a Mac, I’d love to play them. I never got into shooters or 3D games, but always enjoyed platformers like Mario and Contra, and Jazz felt perfect for me.
I thought it was popular. Nearly all my childhood friends played it.
My friends at the time all played it, copies pirated from BBSes though. None paid for a copy AFAIK.
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#57As a kid, my family got a new PC and it came with the full version of Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Both the campaign and the local multiplayer were a lot of fun, but quite often the multiplayer crashed. I also read about the game having a level editor called the Jazz Creation Station, but my copy absolutely didn't come with it. I looked though the game files and all that. I loved level editors so I was really disappointed. We…
Same here. I have a vague memory of the level editor being included in the OEM version but not being able to get it working. But I could be mistaken.
Was very confused at the time that we appeared to have the full version but it was missing features. Still spent many hours playing it.
Edit: Also some motorbike racing game that came with the same (probably Gateway) PC. Can't remember much about it, but many hours wasted.
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#58I have fond memories of playing Jazz Jackrabbit...and Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Secret Agent Man, Jill of the Jungle, and so on. Epic Games and Apogee were the logos I remember seeing most often. OMG! Jetpack from Adept Software is still available?! https://www.adeptsoftware.com/jetpack/
Recently, thanks to linux gaming support, I was able to run Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (using proton). Nothing beats fun nostalgia. So happy it lives forever on open source now.
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#59I have fond memories of playing Jazz Jackrabbit...and Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Secret Agent Man, Jill of the Jungle, and so on. Epic Games and Apogee were the logos I remember seeing most often. OMG! Jetpack from Adept Software is still available?! https://www.adeptsoftware.com/jetpack/
All of those and gizmos and gadgets. God I spent so much time on that one. And the lost mind/island of Dr. Brain. I wish I could still play them!
All old games are available.
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#60As a kid, my family got a new PC and it came with the full version of Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Both the campaign and the local multiplayer were a lot of fun, but quite often the multiplayer crashed. I also read about the game having a level editor called the Jazz Creation Station, but my copy absolutely didn't come with it. I looked though the game files and all that. I loved level editors so I was really disappointed. We…
Same here. I have a vague memory of the level editor being included in the OEM version but not being able to get it working. But I could be mistaken. Was very confused at the time that we appeared to have the full version but it was missing features. Still spent many hours playing it. Edit: Also some motorbike racing game that came with the same (probably Gateway) PC. Can't remember much about it, but many hours wast…
If your game bundle was the same as mine, it was Redline Racer!