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	Blizzard! posted by superdav42 @ 70.56.144.145 on Aug 27 2009 6:31 AM
Leave it to blizzard to muck in a good thing. Any Dog Breed
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	good game posted by andyen4 @ 85.166.145.46 on Jun 24 2007 10:23 AM
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	need it? posted by vegard1992 @ 81.191.210.37 on Oct 12 2006 3:48 AM
if anyone still wants freecraft.. search on google: freecraft win download.. and you get it for windows.. for linux maybe freecraft lin download?
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	FreeCraft posted by Anonymous @ 59.56.77.79 on Jul 30 2006 5:09 PM
It's great ! But we need more datas like fcmp ! Freecraft seems better than AoE, but AoE2 is better, ..., Maybe it is the problem of fcmp ? So, rate 4.5 for freecraft (if AoE2 rate 5). ----- thank you for reading, bye :)
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	Download mirror posted by My_World @ 198.54.202.210 on Feb 10 2006 6:16 PM
As we know the project was canned by Blizzard. Here is a mirror of the last packages before the Seize and Desist order: http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/cd/
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	lookin good posted by Anonymous @ 66.141.121.94 on Dec 12 2005 6:19 PM
Still some problems: they try to attack you with carrier ships, random crashes, crashes if peon/peasant runs out of wood to cut while cutting sometimes, the human mission where you are supposed to "quell the peasant uprising" is super easy cuz the peasants don't fight back. I also can't figure out how to get the game to play my CD ripped mp3s out of the music folder. (Any help on that?) BUT! - This is nit-picking. For their first public download, they are doing very well. Very solid. Some very cool improvements too: can que up build, walk, attack - almost any command. Can also que up unit productions. Can also group and call (control+number to set, number to call) groups of people and can group more than 9 units to a group now. Also, certanly seems like upgrades and such don't take near as long, but I wouldn't remember from back then - just that SC seems to take forever to upgrade. Indeed great progress. Thank you developers for bringing this back from the dead.
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	fcmp with Wargus? posted by Anonymous @ 67.185.238.63 on Jun 18 2005 11:41 AM
What a mess - Freecraft, Wargus, Stratagus, ALE-clone or whatever! apt-get install freecraft used to just work. Now, it hoses my debian box! I just did a fresh install of kanotix and tried to grab freecraft and it hosed, so I reinstalled...it still runs fine on an old debian box... After looking, I find a plethora of games that are related to Freecraft...this is an old box, and Stratagus is optimized for OpenGL, something about refreshing the screen all the time - it runs slow unless I run it at 6:40x480, and the game, BOS, isn't that great... How in the heck do you get fcmp working with Stratagus? Or with Wargus? Why use Wargus, if Stratagus works with a WC2 CD? Wargus does also, I guess, but no info getting it to work with fcmp? Too man damn projects! Can't I just play Freecraft like I used too, no matter what silly name it may now have? Anyone? Obviously, it's still possible to do this, by extracting the files from an old Freecraft deb file and pointing it to fcmp, which is still available - anyone have clear instructions as to how to do this? Why can't this website advise seekers which of three thousand variations actually work? Why is this page still here, if Freecraft no longer works? Wouldn't each box, such as Network gaming, etc., get a NO, since nothing works now?! Don't get me started about the legal-bs going on - I wonder if Blizzard pays a royalty to the Tolkien estate with each sale - I doubt it. In any case, I thought reverse engineering was allowed - isn't that basically what Freecraft is/was/still kinda is but not really?
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Re: fcmp with Wargus? posted by Kimmo Merikivi @ 80.222.242.111 on Jun 18 2005 3:03 PM   It seems there cannot be separated lines, so this will be terrible to read. I'll try to answer ass well as I can. Because Blizzard sent Cease and Desist -letter to FreeCraft-stuff, development was shut down. As being Open Source -project, many people had fresh CVS-repository and nearly everyone could have given rebirth to project (And I REALLY hoped that when this happend). Not that didn't happen, unfortunately. I think it could have been done as it was, but with different name. So, someone started new project using FreeCraft-sources, that's that Stratagus. Unlike FreeCraft, it really was meant to be generic RTS-engine, not for just one game with two different datasets. There is still some hardcoded things, but greatest weakness, pud-map format was removed from CVS-version some time ago. As I already told, it is possible to make different games with Stratagus. First ones were Wargus, game wich works with WarCraft II data (ATM someone is making StarCraft-version, I think also WarCraft I is planned, but I'm not sure) and Aleona's tales wich was meant to base it's work to FreeCraft Media Project and Robovaision. Aleona's tales was, in fact, meant to be Free Craft Fantasy Edition, but it didn't got much developers, Stratagus-developers made LUA-conversion but that was all. Nothing happend. You can still get Aleona's tales and if you have much time in your hands, you can port it to newer Stratagus-version (I would do that if I had time, and develop it too, maybe). Robovaision had some plans, but also it hasn't released anything since starting of project. After some time of development, Stratagus 2.0 was released and it had better support for other games. In that time Battle of Survival and Magnant appeared and someone began to "make" Acron hunt and GnomeGnation. Battle of Survival has nice graphics and sounds, but unfortunately it's main developer died. In CVS-version it has got some new features and it still has good graphics and sounds, it is good game, but because it lacks depth, I don't like it. Fun until you learn to beat AI, I could say (In fact, I am "enemy" (but also "friend") of BoS, so don't belive me). Magnant has nice graphics and sounds and is basically single-raced WarCraft/FCMP with ants. Quite good game, but there isn't very much development anymore, as far as I know, and it seems it's not "offically" available for download. But it's developer has done something, but I really don't know, what, tough. Acron hunt and GnomeGnation have never come anything. Only ideas. Last time I checked (I'm too lazy to check it now), there was about 40 "developers" in GnomeGnations projcet-page (in SourceForge). I wonder what on earth they're doing. And Acron hunt.. It has never come anything. Shor after that, Astroseries appeared. At first it used FreeCraft with modded graphics, but now it is ported to Stratagus 2.1. Quite good game. Graphics aren't best possible, but I don't mind that. I've spent some time playing it. In start of year 2005 I released game named Battle for Mandicor, using Stratagus too. If you don't want hear text written by fanatic developer, please skip this. **Flame begins*** Battle for Mandicor is fantasy RTS game and it's fantasy-world is very much like Tolkien's. Me nor my little brother haven't written much about story, because we don't have much time (and most text is in Finnish, even more is only in our minds). Many graphics are still placeholders (But that is getting better, two skilled artists have joined the project, TimberDragon (Who is now also main-artist of BoS) and Geargolem. TimberDragon has made many dwarven-buildings, example of his work is found http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/battle4mandicor/bfm/data/graphics/dwarves/buildings/barracks.png?rev=1.4&view=markup - I'm too lazy to search for link-tag, TimberDragon has been lots offline past months tough. Geargolem joined project about month ago and he is skilled artist, like TimberDragon, http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/battle4mandicor/bfm/data/graphics/dwarves/units/lord.png?rev=1.5&view=markup is example of his work) Sounds are still very placeholder, I need good sound-artist ;). But if you don't mind much about placeholder-graphics and terrible sounds (Even my little brother prefers to turn them off), BfM is a very good game. More researchs, units and buildings than other Stratagus-games and is expanding much faster. Unfortunately I've been quite lazy past weeks and most work I've done isn't expanding game). And when story is more complete, it will be worth of reading, even if you don't like game ;). ***Flame ends*** And there is short-version of this. Stratagus: - Project started, because FreeCraft-development was shut down - Is generic engine and can be used with much games - Has many nice new (compared to FreeCraft, also anyways) features, but I can still make much feature-requests. ;) - As being engine, it still isn't "game" and needs game using it. - Still, it is engine. And rating of games: - Wargus, good if you have WarCraft II. Good graphics and sounds (Because they are from WarCraft). Doesn't work without it. - Battle of Survival, nice graphics and sounds, but lacks depth (this is getting better, but slowly, because developers don't like placeholders). - Magnant, this could be what you seek. Nice graphics and sounds, basically WarCraft II with ants - Astroseries, also same thing, sounds and graphics aren't very good, but it is nice game and has too races and quite long campaign. - Battle for Mandicor, the youngest project, I'm it's main-developer and has greatest depth, but has many placeholder-graphics (but the ones wich aren't, are good) and awful sounds. - Aleona's tales, was meant to continue FCMP/FCMP Fantasy edition, but uses old CVS-version of Stratagus, so you cannot get it easily working (because it doesn't use any release) and hasn't been developed expect conversion from ccl to lua. - Robovaision, old project, nothing has ever released - GnomeGnation and Acron hunt, middle-aged projects, nothing is ever released For you real question, there isn't FCMP anymore. Wargus uses WarCraft II data and Aleona's tales doesn't work with any released version of Stratagus nor with newest CVS. You could mix these two projects, make Wargus use graphics and sounds from Aleona's tales, but this will take long time. But if you were real fan of FreeCraft, this isn't impossible. If you have any questions, come to #stratagus@Freenode, thanks. -- Kimmo Merikivi (KimmoKM)   [Reply]   Re: fcmp with Wargus? posted by Anonymous @ 70.97.193.226 on Jun 18 2005 5:24 PM   Paragraph separations can be added by inserting an html break like the following, minus the spaces: < br >   [Reply]   Re: fcmp with Wargus? posted by Kimmo Merikivi @ 80.222.242.111 on Jun 19 2005 5:24 AM   "HTML tags are allowed"... Hehheh. Why I didn't read it? Hmm..   [Reply]   Re: fcmp with Wargus? posted by Anonymous @ 222.153.227.223 on Jul 10 2005 10:02 PM   egad! I can't read all that!   [Reply]

	Free Craft posted by Anonymous @ 195.67.212.96 on Apr 26 2005 5:36 AM
Free craft is like Ages of EMPIRE But funny
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	i love freecraft 5 of 5 point jonte Sw posted by Anonymous @ 195.67.212.96 on Apr 26 2005 5:31 AM
i love freecraft 5 of 5 point jonte Sw
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