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Red Baron Lands at Mad Otter

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Mad Otter Games announces they have landed the rights to the Red Baron series of World War I combat flight simulations developed back in the day by Dynamix, appropriate since Dynamix cofounder Damon Slye is one of the otters at Mad Otter (thanks Big Download). They now have the rights, but not the source code, so they are offering a reward:

Mad Otter Games is very proud to announce that it has acquired all rights to Red Baron, Red Baron II, and Red Baron 3D. Many of the otters worked on the award winning game back in 1989! It was named #4 on the Best Games of All Time (PC) by Computer Gaming World in 1996.

In an effort to bring these games back to life, Mad Otter is offering a finder’s fee of $1500 to the first person who can deliver the complete source code to any of these games. Note: complete source code does *not* mean assembly. Original C or C++ please!

Red Baron, Red Baron II, and Red Baron 3D are registered trademarks of Mad Otter Games, Inc.

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Re: Red Baron Lands at Mad Otter

Sep 10, 2009, 20:04

theAntiELVIS

They are looking for the original text files that the game program is created from. Usually very carefully protected as proprietary intellectual property. However, employees (especially programmers) have been known to walk-off with a copy - and especially when a company goes out of business. I would estimate the value of the source to be a bit more than $1,500.00 - except since the Otters own the rights, anyone who has it can't legally do anything with it. -tAE-

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Comment [quote="theAntiELVIS"Sep 10, 2009, 20:04]They are looking for the original text files that the game program is created from. Usually very carefully protected as proprietary intellectual property. However, employees (especially programmers) have been known to walk-off with a copy - and especially when a company goes out of business. I would estimate the value of the source to be a bit more than $1,500.00 - except since the Otters own the rights, anyone who has it can't legally do anything with it. -tAE- [/quote]

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