Conquer’s *nix game history
History of Conquer
Conquest begins to be posted on comp.sources.games (October 26, 1987)
v02i058: conquest – middle earth multi-player game, Part01/05
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.games/browse_thread/thread/d7cf1d13d3ad2a18/324b78a5bf6ff2ea?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=517#324b78a5bf6ff2ea
conquest newsletter #2 in rec.games.empire (Nov. 12, 1997)
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/browse_thread/thread/fab56ce19c4b0f90/f9bc206de4016cbe#f9bc206de4016cbe
Conquest Newsletter #3 in rec.games.empire
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/browse_thread/thread/e62718c10cd8d3d2/957c0bb68ea157fe?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=4#957c0bb68ea157fe
Conquer 3: v04i042: conquer3 – middle earth multi-player game (V3), Part01/08
in comp.sources.games (June 16, 1988)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.games/browse_thread/thread/23bfc97badb334ba/f1316ffe73640157?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=496#f1316ffe73640157
Other things…
Bugs were posted in comp.sources.games.bugs
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.games.bugs/browse_thread/thread/65313fdd9a9d11b5/657e1757d3543427?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=498#657e1757d35
More bugs, and first message from Adam Bryant on January 23, 1988
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.empire/browse_thread/thread/9d7fcbfe2da74628/ea45e9187af496de?lnk=st&q=conquest+barlow&rnum=500#ea45e9187af496de
In the year 2006, someone called Vejeta (me) contacts the authors to relicense the code, manages to contact Ed Barlow who gives permission to relicense it.
http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5945
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/10/msg00063.html
On February 23, 2011, vejeta.com receives a message through its contact form. It’s Adam Bryant who has heard news of the request to release the code. He grants permission to release the code under GPL.
The original code could be extracted and assembled from the original USENET messages with some tools that I don’t remember now.
Additional notes:
Asking on barrapunto about how to relicense it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180707202804/http://barrapunto.com/~vejeta/journal/22901
About conquer and dominion:
https://groups.google.com/group/es.comp.os.unix/browse_thread/thread/808b677b6af29aea/79a5a3abd161f7f1?q=conquer+vejeta+estrategia#79a5a3abd161f7f1
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