Remember the Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari’s 7800 series was still around. Now since the era of those consoles is over and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari has unofficially released source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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2 years 46 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago
Open source is in question
The Open Source status to this software is not certain. Atari (the copyright holders to these titles) have not publically authorised the publication of these software titles to be open source.
It seems like someone shared the source code to these titles without the explicit authority to share it.
akf
2 years 46 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago
not open source
This is not open source! Only the source code was published, but without a license.
This shows again that the term "Open Source" also is confusing. To some it means only, that the source code is somehow "open", ie. visible. But that is not the official definition of the term.
The term "free software" is less confusing, because it clearly states that freedom is the goal. Okay, that term is also confusion to some. Both terms are.
BTW. nevertheless it is very interesting to see, that they were written in assembler!