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X-com on Impulse

Retro gaming on Impulse--it never hurts to ask. . .

October 9, 2009 10:49:46 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

So the X-com games, supposedly updated just enough to run on Windows, are available through Steam, but I'd love to buy them from Impulse instead.  Any chance they'll be becoming available?

While I'm asking for pie in the sky, having Master of Magic, compatible with Windows, available on Impulse would be lovely and would whet everyone's appetite for Elemental.

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Reply #1 October 9, 2009 10:58:41 AM
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ooohhh that would be cool and awesome, be even better if they could update them

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Reply #2 October 9, 2009 1:50:11 PM
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I would like to see MOM available on impulse, hosted by Stardock, ect ect.

I would even buy it for 10 dollars or so, the price for avoiding all the hassle with Daemon tools and sifting through arcane repitoires of dying and forgotten games, until I find the files that will actually work, or just get a spot of luck from my +1 ring of finding.

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Reply #3 October 9, 2009 2:06:57 PM
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I think they are on a massive sale on D2D...

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Reply #4 October 9, 2009 7:41:03 PM
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You used to be able to get X-Com free... free! If you can find it free, you can run it with Dosbox just fine.

Sorry, buying abandonware makes me cranky. Excuse me.

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Reply #5 October 9, 2009 10:00:06 PM
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Oh

Quoting MagicwillNZ,
reply 4
You used to be able to get X-Com free... free! If you can find it free, you can run it with Dosbox just fine.

Sorry, buying abandonware makes me cranky. Excuse me.

Oh, I still have my original game disks for both X-com and Master of Magic, but it would be worth a few dollars to me to be able to run windows-compatible versions of them with the digital installation of Impulse.

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Reply #6 October 11, 2009 1:40:05 PM
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ooohhh that would be cool and awesome, be even better if they could update them

They can't; the source code has been lost.

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Reply #7 October 11, 2009 6:10:57 PM
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It would probably be easier to remake them from the ground up.  Access to the source code is probably less important than having the concept art and original notes to look at.

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Reply #8 October 11, 2009 10:27:17 PM
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Quoting Ron Lugge,
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ooohhh that would be cool and awesome, be even better if they could update them
They can't; the source code has been lost.

 

Well, the X-com games, at least, were updated to windows-compatability for their release on Steam.  I can't speak to the MoM source.  To satisfy my curiousity, do you have a citation for the source code being lost?

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Reply #9 October 13, 2009 11:24:12 AM
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To satisfy my curiousity, do you have a citation for the source code being lost?

Sorry, no... it's over in the steam forums somewhere.

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Reply #10 October 17, 2009 10:22:35 AM
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The XCom games were not updated in any way to run in windows, they were simply packaged with DosBox and DosBox was set to autorun some settings they tested to run in Windows. I bought it on Steam already but I did play it for 2 years for free from Abandonia, I just like the game so much it was worth a purchase. If Impulse got it then I wouldn't get it simply because Steam beat them to it.

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