On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 2:16 PM Carsten Strotmann <cars...@strotmann.de> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > On 16 Jun 2021, at 21:01, Jim Hall wrote: > > > * Magnetic says in the startup that it is an interpreter for Magnetic > > Scrolls games. but there aren't any Magnetic Scrolls games installed > > with it, so I can't play anything with it. GNU GPL, but the game > > doesn't seem useful without any Magnetic Scrolls games to play. I'm > > wondering if we need this game, or can we find another game to replace > > it? > > the data files for Magnetic can be downloaded from > <https://msmemorial.if-legends.org/magnetic.php>, but they are > not free and can't be legally distributed. It would be possible > to create a download batch script that will download and install > the data files for each game to be used with the "magnetic" > interpreter. >
Thanks, that's helpful. This is also parallel to the Emulators, which we dropped prior to FreeDOS 1.3 RC4. We made this note on the wiki: (see point 2) http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages#Emulators >Note: Will drop Emulators in FreeDOS 1.3 for two reasons: (1) These >are really games, and we already decided that games are not "core" >like other programs in the distro, so we can add or remove games >without issues. (2) The emulators require ROMs to do anything, and we >can't include the ROMS - so if users would have to download ROMs >anyway, they can download the emulators too. So I think we should drop Magenetic for the same reasons. Agree? Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
