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A8 Game "Kaiser II" released as free software

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Carsten Strotmann

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Feb 2, 2003, 11:35:15 AM2/2/03
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Hello,

today I've released the game "Kaiser II" as free software (GNU Public
License). The game sold approx. 600 copies between 1990 and 1992 in
germany.

Kaiser II is a stratiegic game for up to 4 players where your a medieval
sovereign on the way to become the Emperor of the world.

It has some nice hi-res graphics done by Bjoern Israel, some digi-sound and
a long lasting gameplay.

On the webpage you can find the versions for 64Kb, 128Kb and 320Kb ATARI, as
well as all Turbo-Basic Sourcecode, two Disks with the Source and all
Pictures/Music/Resources and a Demo for the SAG Fair in 's Hertogenbosch
back in 1989.

The gameplay is all in german language, but now that the sources are free
and it's mostly turbo-basic, it should not difficult to translate the game
to an other languages.

Please contact me if you're interested in doing a new localized version.

Website
http://www.strotmann.de/twiki/bin/view/APG/GameKaiserZwo

Have fun!

Ciao

Carsten

William Kendrick

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Feb 3, 2003, 2:26:44 AM2/3/03
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Carsten Strotmann <cas_...@strotmann.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today I've released the game "Kaiser II" as free software (GNU Public
> License). The game sold approx. 600 copies between 1990 and 1992 in
> germany.

Right on! :^)

-bill!

Andreas Magenheimer

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Feb 4, 2003, 2:11:24 PM2/4/03
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Heya!
Thanks for releasing that game as free software !! But, how about
ZIPping the images and sources (to save space and download time,
etc.)... -Andreas.

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Carsten Strotmann

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Feb 7, 2003, 3:56:58 PM2/7/03
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Hello Andreas,

Modern Webserver <-> Browser communication is compressed with gzip anyway
(Apache mod_gzip).
You don't win real gain to compress manually. It only consts time to
decompress.

Ciao

Carsten

Carsten Strotmann

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Feb 7, 2003, 3:56:58 PM2/7/03
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Hello Andreas,

Modern Webserver <-> Browser communication is compressed with gzip anyway
(Apache mod_gzip).
You don't win real gain to compress manually. It only consts time to
decompress.

Ciao

Carsten

Andreas Magenheimer

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Feb 11, 2003, 11:24:26 AM2/11/03
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Yeah,
I know what you mean. It was mainly meant for the sources (e.g.
archiving all sources of the 64k version in one ZIP or ARC file, all
sources for the 128k version in a second and all sources for the 320k
version in a third), so there is no need to download 10-20 files... just
an idea or a suggestion, nothing else (and not a complaint!)...
greetings - Andreas.

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