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Re: Thief & System Shock 2: Major Patch fixes many bugs, extends editor capabilities

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From: John Lewis
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:07
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:38:31 -0600, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

>Judging by this thread, this looks to be a big deal for running these 
>classic games on newer systems, and for modders creating new missions, etc. 
>Download links are shown too:
>http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140085
>
>rms 
>

Thanks for the info. These hot-off-the-press patches are from a
mysterious French source. Speculation is that the originator is
somebody with access to the game source-code, considering the depth
and extent of the patch changes, including fixes for modern CPUs.
(Requires DX9 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 C++ runtimes installed)

The TTLG forum is buzzing like a bunch of bees that just discovered a
vast new source of nectar.

Current guesses about the originator point to somebody at Arkane
Studios (Lyon, France). or maybe somebody who migrated to Ubisoft from
Looking Glass. EA has the current copyright rights for SS2. Since
Arkane and Ubi are not part of the EA 'stable',  anonymity may be the
best policy and a bunch of SS2 and Thief1/2 modders seem hugely
grateful for the unknown developer's efforts..

John Lewis
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Subject: Re: Thief & System Shock 2:  Major Patch fixes many bugs, extends editor capabilities
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