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Month ago I was searching some info about ja2 on linux/unix. As first I've found wiki . There I've found ja2 1.13 mod... So I started searching something about it and found ja2 1.13 mod site (I think the site is down/inactive at the moment) ... ja2 1.13 mod (ja2v113) is running only on windows... So I installed wine on my FreeBSD box and started to play it. ja2v113 has new and interesting features (like new weapons, better AI, ...). I've played it for 2 days and then found on the ja2v113 forum that sources are open with some license that forbids comercial use... I was interesting if there are some attempts to port it to unix/linux... Stracciatella is one that runs on linux/unix... Also ja2v113 is being ported to linux... So I was hoping I could help port it to FreeBSD too... But then I saw the sources... The game is mostly written in C some parts are written in C++ with C-like style. But the whole code doesn't look nice( global variables, global structures, the naming is inconsistent) so I start thinking about rewritting the whole game to C++ with boost library (for filesystem, loging, ...) and also clanlib (for graphics).

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