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Ground Control is a Free RTS, i just re-discovered it last night, and to my delight found out its now GPL :) or GNU or whatever its called :) free free free :)

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SuseUser wrote: and to my delight found out its now GPL :) or GNU or whatever its called :) free free free :)
It's probably licensed under the conditions of the GPL, and the GPL has been designed/written by the GNU project (just about all "Linux" systems run on GNU so they're actually "GNU/Linux" systems).

And yes it's now that that RTS is truely free, both as in beer as well as in speech.
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Ground Control is free as freeware. But not open source.
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Kamaze wrote: Ground Control is free as freeware. But not open source.
hmm, in other words: not free at all (free of charge yes, but that's the only "free" thing about it then).
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Boson looked like it had some potential but it hasn't been updated in about a year.
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plz plz plz give me a link to the download
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Hello Cooldude,

I don't know if it's still interesting for you, but here is a link for download the game. The only problem: You must register....

http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/groundcontrol/

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* In my book if I don't have to cough-up cash for something and I don't have to listen to a lecture or sermon 1st, then said item is totally "free".

* Now Robert Heinlein was pretty adamant about there being no such thing as a "free lunch" - but that's a whole other kettle of worms best not raised were "silver spoons" are taken as a god given right.

* "Ground Control" is a fine, fun, game but it is very far removed in its GPMs from WZ, IMO. I wouldn't even call it an RTS but rather an RTT (Real Time Tactical).

* But why quibble over what to call it genre-wise.... it's a fun freebie, pure and simple and as was said in the 'ol six-shooter West : "Never look a gift horse in the mouth."

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Delphinio wrote: i say only machines  :D
http://reviews.cnet.com/arts-music/accl ... 41238.html
* Wow... I totally missed this one. Thanks for posting it. I'm gonna have to get my hands on a copy and play it.

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i got a xp patch... if u need
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i've never gotten machines to work on xp, with or without the xp patch (ironically)
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Delphinio wrote: i got a xp patch... if u need
* Thanks for the offer, that's very thoughtful of you. :)

* But i'm kwel. I run it native on Win '98 box w/a GFX card of the era (have a Dos box box too - It's hard for me to let go my old stuff)

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kage wrote: i've never gotten machines to work on xp, with or without the xp patch (ironically)
maybe u tryed the wrong patch ^^. try this one...
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One game SORT of like WZ2100 is Original War. This also features building vehicles, but its a bit different... eg.

- You have limited men, each can research/heal (scientist), fight (soldier), build/repair buildings, gather crates (engineer), and build/maintain/drive vehicles (mechanics).
- Three types of resources.
- When you lose a man, he/shes gone forever.
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