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[Timpsi]

Originally posted by The Picard@Dec 22 2004, 07:36 PM
Dark Forces is no longer being sold and is in fact abandoned.

Is that so? http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/darkforpr.htm

[Kon-Tiki]

So basically, all those wad-editors're legal, making your own game as a wad-file is legal too, and running it on the engine is as well, just as long as the game you made isn't Doom, Doom 2 or Heretic?

[JJXB]

yep, people have even made replacement episodes for doom1/2

[Kon-Tiki]

Which means that, instead of playing Doom, you can make a game more to your friends likings and your friends could make a game more to your likings and you could exchange them, having far more fun with it than with Doom k:

Edit: Quick question... the individual parts... sprites, sounds, textures... are they free to be used too, as long as they're not combined into Doom, or is using them illegal too?

[JJXB]

im not sure about the legality on that

[BlackMageJawa]

Anything that they haven't released into the public domain is still copyrighted. The engine may be legally available, but unless they've said otherwise any content from Doom itself isn't, that would include sprites, textures and sounds.

[dr_doom]

you cant play peoples custom doom wads(pwad) w/out the original doom wad(iwad) so therefor all of that stuff about playing doom levels for free wont wrk, just so u know LOL

[Mara]

I was looking for dark forces, but I can't find it anywere. Stupid lucasarts! Protecting their games, and not selling them anymore.

Anyone know where I can buy/download it ?

[Lucullus]

Hmm.... you might have to search for a torrent or use your favourite P2P network program and find it. Or check on Lucasarts website to see if they point you in a direction to buy

[Rogue]

Use eBay or computer games store...