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| _fat_santa wrote:
| Going down the rabbit hole of some of the referenced articles. I
| read this one [1] about Microsoft's attempts to resurrect the
| game. The problem seems to be the license agreement does not
| allow MS to release the game as a standalone copy. Not a lawyer
| but wouldn't it be pretty easy for MS to just re-license it? MS
| has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it without too
| much of a sweat.
|
| [1]:
| https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181221-00/?p=10...
| wildzzz wrote:
| No need to relicense and release it again. Space Cadet is part
| of Full Tilt! Pinball which is hosted online at a certain
| abandonware website. Until Maxis (or EA) decides to release it
| again, just download a free copy of it. There are even
| instructions out there for getting it to work on Windows 10.
| Nextgrid wrote:
| > MS has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it
| without too much of a sweat.
|
| I could imagine that the rightsholders are aware and would want
| to exploit it by charging fees significantly higher than what
| they'd normally charge for something like this, and thus
| Microsoft isn't biting.
| selectodude wrote:
| Judging by Cinematronics and the long chain of purchases,
| closures and divestures, it wouldn't surprise me if there
| wasn't anybody who even knows who the hell owns the rights at
| this point. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they're _very_ worth
| suing and consider it not worth it to have that exposure over
| Space Cadet Pinball.
| sunjester wrote:
| The mark of Windows, "My proudest achievement of Windows XP was
| fixing the game so it didn't consume 100% CPU."
| Zenst wrote:
| Aha - Dave Plumber had something to say about this last year
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThxdvEajK8g
| tgtweak wrote:
| So... Is there an arm64 version rolling around?
| marcodiego wrote:
| Try box86. I can run it correctly using wine on x64.
| bpye wrote:
| Check out https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
| sharmin123 wrote:
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