Came up with an idea the other day, when I was playing one of my favorite LEC-games - Full Throttle. Everytime I want to play one of these games, I always need to boot up to DOS and start the game from there. I think that someone or somebody should try to port the binaries (Yes, just the binaries) as an Opensource/GPL project. To play the game, you must own the libraries... If someone find this idea great, please contact me. I dunno how to code in any language (Even though I''m studying C right now), but I can be helpful anyways. (Anyone need an artist/character designer?) Anyways, the games I''d love to see on Linux are: * Monkey Island 1 and 2 * Full Throttle * Zak McKracken (Enhance music with midi?) * Loom/Loom CD * The Dig * Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis * Maniac Mansion * Day of the Tentacle And many others... What do you think? Reply with comment, please. -- How could this go so far, that I need someone to say - what is wrong, not with the world but me. --

1. My computer is way to slow, only LEC game I''ve managed to start is Zak McKracken - and it was lagging (P200)
2. I dunno if CD-games can be run through DOSemu
3. We like Linux better than MS-products.

Interesting idea, but I''d advise extreme caution on the whole copyright issue.


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Commander M

Yeah, but would we be manipulating or copying their software? All we would do, would be giving the Linux LEC-fans an opportunity to play their favorite games under Linux... But they would still need to buy the games to play them. 8)
Like ALE, the Warcraft clone; or Doom/Quake (This was easier to port, since the code was opensourced).

Alternatively, we could start a petition and gather names asking for the old LEC games to be Opensourced/GPL:ed. Only the binaries, that is.