Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation

Post by willis936 » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 3:55 PM UTC

hieguiz wrote: post #98

willis936 wrote: post #87

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Tip of my tongue request. Looking up images of DOS platformers like Secret Agent and Crystal Caves reminds me of a game that was loaded on some elementary school computers in 1998. I don't recall if they were Mac or DOS, but they certainly weren't the cutting edge G3. I think the game had a character in a trench coat and they were maybe a sleuth of some kind. The color palette was dark but there were yellow-ish light…

The detective character you're describing sounds a lot like the character from the Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets series. I've linked a video but not sure if it's the exact game you're thinking of https://youtu.be/OzXHI22IOSA?t=113 edit: This DOS game might be the one you're thinking of https://youtu.be/Wei0C21LBNM?t=28

Post by Zardoz84 » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC

Zardoz84 wrote: post #103

NetOpWibby wrote: post #26

I 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/

> OMG! Jetpack from Adept Software is still available?! https://www.adeptsoftware.com/jetpack/ I love that game!

Post by jfrej » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 5:14 PM UTC

willis936 wrote: post #87

NetOpWibby wrote: post #26

I 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/

Tip of my tongue request. Looking up images of DOS platformers like Secret Agent and Crystal Caves reminds me of a game that was loaded on some elementary school computers in 1998. I don't recall if they were Mac or DOS, but they certainly weren't the cutting edge G3. I think the game had a character in a trench coat and they were maybe a sleuth of some kind. The color palette was dark but there were yellow-ish light…

Post by zactato » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

NetOpWibby wrote: post #26

I 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/

Post by the_af » Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 2:40 AM UTC

stephen_g wrote: post #52

the_af wrote: post #30

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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…