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Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by somerandomqaguy »

dekken_ wrote: post #6
itisit wrote: post #3

Would be great to have the option to download this in full before the C&D hits.

> DISCLAIMER: BorgRemastered.com is a fan preservation project; it was created for experimentation, education & research, is completely nonprofit, and should be considered fair use as stated in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107. It is not an official product and it should not be sold nor bought. BorgRemastered.com is intended for free private use and any sale or for-profit use is prohibited. from: http…

CBS can still potentially send a cease and desist letter. Star Trek Stage 9 got shutdown even though it was clearly labelled as a non commercial and generated no revenue.

There was speculation because the Star Trek: Bridge Crew DLC was coming out which CBS was afraid that Stage 9 would outclass it, but who knows what goes on in the minds of CBS lawyers.

Good thing about it is that the team that worked on Stage 9 moved onto a recreation of the Orville now.

Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by chungy »

dekken_ wrote: post #6
itisit wrote: post #3

Would be great to have the option to download this in full before the C&D hits.

> DISCLAIMER: BorgRemastered.com is a fan preservation project; it was created for experimentation, education & research, is completely nonprofit, and should be considered fair use as stated in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107. It is not an official product and it should not be sold nor bought. BorgRemastered.com is intended for free private use and any sale or for-profit use is prohibited. from: http…

Lifting an entire game could in no way be considered fair use. That will never pass.

Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by TeMPOraL »

somerandomqaguy wrote: post #11
dekken_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> DISCLAIMER: BorgRemastered.com is a fan preservation project; it was created for experimentation, education & research, is completely nonprofit, and should be considered fair use as stated in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107. It is not an official product and it should not be sold nor bought. BorgRemastered.com is intended for free private use and any sale or for-profit use is prohibited. from: http…

CBS can still potentially send a cease and desist letter. Star Trek Stage 9 got shutdown even though it was clearly labelled as a non commercial and generated no revenue. There was speculation because the Star Trek: Bridge Crew DLC was coming out which CBS was afraid that Stage 9 would outclass it, but who knows what goes on in the minds of CBS lawyers. Good thing about it is that the team that worked on Stage 9 move…

> Good thing about it is that the team that worked on Stage 9 moved onto a recreation of the Orville now.

They did a stellar job on this (which makes me double-plus pissed at CBS, knowing how good their Enterprise-D recreation could've been). Unfortunately, Seth MacFarlane seems to be doing less than stellar job at keeping the Orville going for now.

Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by rincebrain »

This was such a strange and janky game when it came out, the hitboxes for clicking were so unreliable even when you knew what you wanted to do.

It was a shame, because the game was a fascinating idea and well written.

Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by RedNifre »

thih9 wrote: post #10

Now I'm curious about other games. ScummVM and its backgrounds could be a relatively easy target. And on the opposite end would be using NES Mario gameplay as input and processing that real time to get consistently animated high definition results. Are there any other remastering projects like this?

The Sierra Adventures used vector graphics, so it's possible to render them in higher resolutions: https://youtu.be/sclZDCjUVvI?si=voV4oOiiFdbGzA75&t=294

Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by paulgerhardt »

chungy wrote: post #12
dekken_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> DISCLAIMER: BorgRemastered.com is a fan preservation project; it was created for experimentation, education & research, is completely nonprofit, and should be considered fair use as stated in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107. It is not an official product and it should not be sold nor bought. BorgRemastered.com is intended for free private use and any sale or for-profit use is prohibited. from: http…

Lifting an entire game could in no way be considered fair use. That will never pass.

Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18673076

Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by simmons »

anthk wrote: post #16
itisit wrote: post #3

Would be great to have the option to download this in full before the C&D hits.

How come BSD trek and the rest of the implementations (several even under PD) never got an issue?

A niche mainframe game from 1971, and its successors like BSD Trek, were flying way below the radar of any lawyers back then. Even through the early/mid-80's, developers took great liberties with IP and largely got away with it. (Regard the "Prisoner" game from 1980 [1].)

I remember buying a C64 port of Trek off the shelf at Target in the mid-80s which was clearly not licensed. I don't think anyone could get away with that today. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(video_game)#Diff...

Re: Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

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Post by acheron »

anthk wrote: post #16
itisit wrote: post #3

Would be great to have the option to download this in full before the C&D hits.

How come BSD trek and the rest of the implementations (several even under PD) never got an issue?

EGA Trek for DOS got a sternly-worded letter. Later versions had “USS Lexington” fighting the “Mongols”, rather than the Enterprise and Klingons.
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