[HN Gopher] Star Trek: Borg - Remastered
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       Star Trek: Borg - Remastered
        
       Author : CharlesW
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2024-02-19 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (borgremastered.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (borgremastered.com)
        
       | IronWolve wrote:
       | Nice, even free.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Borg
        
       | itisit wrote:
       | Would be great to have the option to download this in full before
       | the C&D hits.
        
         | dekken_ wrote:
         | > DISCLAIMER: BorgRemastered.com is a fan preservation project;
         | it was created for experimentation, education & research, is
         | completely nonprofit, and should be considered fair use as
         | stated in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. section 107. It
         | is not an official product and it should not be sold nor
         | bought. BorgRemastered.com is intended for free private use and
         | any sale or for-profit use is prohibited.
         | 
         | from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jBYkjBF8Zw
        
           | stonogo wrote:
           | nothing about that will stop a cease and desist.
        
             | dekken_ wrote:
             | I didn't say it did, just pointing out the attempt to
             | preempt
        
           | somerandomqaguy wrote:
           | CBS can still potentially send a cease and desist letter.
           | Star Trek Stage 9 got shutdown even though it was clearly
           | labelled as a non commercial and generated no revenue.
           | 
           | There was speculation because the Star Trek: Bridge Crew DLC
           | was coming out which CBS was afraid that Stage 9 would
           | outclass it, but who knows what goes on in the minds of CBS
           | lawyers.
           | 
           | Good thing about it is that the team that worked on Stage 9
           | moved onto a recreation of the Orville now.
        
             | TeMPOraL wrote:
             | > _Good thing about it is that the team that worked on
             | Stage 9 moved onto a recreation of the Orville now._
             | 
             | They did a stellar job on this (which makes me double-plus
             | pissed at CBS, knowing how good their Enterprise-D
             | recreation could've been). Unfortunately, Seth MacFarlane
             | seems to be doing less than stellar job at keeping the
             | Orville going for now.
        
           | chungy wrote:
           | Lifting an entire game could in no way be considered fair
           | use. That will never pass.
        
             | paulgerhardt wrote:
             | Discussed previously:
             | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18673076
        
         | anthk wrote:
         | How come BSD trek and the rest of the implementations (several
         | even under PD) never got an issue?
        
           | simmons wrote:
           | A niche mainframe game from 1971, and its successors like BSD
           | Trek, were flying way below the radar of any lawyers back
           | then. Even through the early/mid-80's, developers took great
           | liberties with IP and largely got away with it. (Regard the
           | "Prisoner" game from 1980 [1].)
           | 
           | I remember buying a C64 port of Trek off the shelf at Target
           | in the mid-80s which was clearly not licensed. I don't think
           | anyone could get away with that today. :)
           | 
           | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(video_game)#D
           | iff...
        
           | acheron wrote:
           | EGA Trek for DOS got a sternly-worded letter. Later versions
           | had "USS Lexington" fighting the "Mongols", rather than the
           | Enterprise and Klingons.
        
       | JojoFatsani wrote:
       | The Klingon one was awesome. This one has Q though.
       | 
       | It is truly wild how much quality content the franchise was able
       | to produce in the 90's.
        
       | chris_wot wrote:
       | Doesn't seem to load...
        
       | danjoredd wrote:
       | The ol' hug of death. Or perhaps a C&D?
       | 
       |  _edit_ It loaded. Definitely hug of death
        
       | thih9 wrote:
       | Now I'm curious about other games.
       | 
       | ScummVM and its backgrounds could be a relatively easy target.
       | And on the opposite end would be using NES Mario gameplay as
       | input and processing that real time to get consistently animated
       | high definition results.
       | 
       | Are there any other remastering projects like this?
        
         | RedNifre wrote:
         | The Sierra Adventures used vector graphics, so it's possible to
         | render them in higher resolutions:
         | https://youtu.be/sclZDCjUVvI?si=voV4oOiiFdbGzA75&t=294
        
       | rincebrain wrote:
       | This was such a strange and janky game when it came out, the
       | hitboxes for clicking were so unreliable even when you knew what
       | you wanted to do.
       | 
       | It was a shame, because the game was a fascinating idea and well
       | written.
        
       | lagrange77 wrote:
       | This is awesome, thank you!
        
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