Link to MC2 not working again

Link to MC2 not working again

• whitewaterdj

  The link has been temporarily disabled. We will reenable it as soon as possible.

  
  
  

• dlyle

  Off topic, but which shared source license is this released under MS-CL
  
  Thanks.
  
  
  

• Jeanne P

  Thanks so much! I also just downloaded the XNA framework to work on some projects and prepare myself for the XNA tools that will be released at a later date. Is there any other programs that we can download to examine using ARM Explorer
  
  

• Alexandre Defalque

  Thanks for your efforts. :)
  

• akira32

  Another off topic question that relates to MechCommander. I don't see networking stuff....has that been pulled, or am I missing something obvious
  

• Dyson47

  Greetings,

  When and where will the MechCommander 2 Shared Source Release be available

  Thanks,

  
  

• j_ames2006

  Thanks a bunch. I'd imagine I'm one of the early birds and I'm getting it at 850KB sec (my cable line max).

  I appreciate your efforts and look forward to getting down to work and play shortly.

  Thanks again.

  
  

• sathishraj

  Hi David,

  You are correct again, it looks like you've been looking through the source pretty closely. :-)

  We wanted to keep multiplayer support in there but any time you release source code like this you have to send it through security reviews. The cost of security reviewing the multiplayer code was very high, and in addition to being outside of our budget for this sort of thing it was also outside of the scope for what we needed in order to demonstrate MechCommander 2 being built with XNA Build. In the end, not many people used the multiplayer functionality in MechCommander 2 when it was originally released so we determined it probably wasn't worth the security review costs.

  You are, of course, free to implement and distribute your own multiplayer support as an add-on if you wish.

  Brian Keller

  
  
  

• Erik Schröder

  The link is currently not working again. If you could kindly fix that I'd greatly appriciate it.
  

• thysie

  Thanks for your patience, I think we're good to go now.

  Please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=63428&clcid=0x409. That page is still propping out to all of our servers at the time of my post so if it doesn't work the first try, just keep trying. After a few tries you should hit one of the live servers.

  Note that this is a very large download (~1 GB) - it's a good idea to save it locally before you run it. You will need approximately 4.5 GB free on your machine during installation - but after installation you can delete the original .EXE you saved and the folder it extracts the .MSI into, so in the end you'll only need about 2.5 GB to work with MechCommander 2.

  Have fun playing with XNA Build (and MechCommander 2, of course!). Let us know if you enounter any issues.

  Brian Keller

  
  
  

• rolian

  Hi David -

  You're right, the link is currently broken. I'm sorry for the problem - we are currently having an issue propping the file to our download center because it's such a large download. We are still plugging away at it and as soon as I have a resolution for you I will post it here sometime later today.

  Thanks for your patience -

  Brian Keller

  
  
  

• Rune Gulbrandsen

  Hello,

  I'm several months late in joining theis party, but I have recently pulled the XNA Sources and wanted to pull the MC2 source as well, but none of the links above are working now Is there an alternate location where I can pull this file now

  Thanks.

  
  

• Eric A

  Pasted below.

  Unfortunately I'm not a lawyer so I can't provide any interpretation. But I think you'll find it's a pretty open license.

  Brian Keller

  Shared Source Limited Permissive License for use of MechCommanderR 2

  This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.

  1. Definitions

  The terms “reproduce,” “reproduction” and “distribution” have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law.

  “You” means the licensee of the software.

  “Licensed patents” means any Microsoft patent claims which read directly on the software as distributed by Microsoft under this license.

  2. Grant of Rights

  (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, Microsoft grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce the software, prepare derivative works of the software and distribute the software or any derivative works that you create.

  (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, Microsoft grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under licensed patents to make, have made, use, practice, sell, and offer for sale, and/or otherwise dispose of the software or derivative works of the software.

  3. Conditions and Limitations

  (A) Limitation on Commercial Distribution- Notwithstanding the rights granted in section 2(A) above, you are not granted any rights to commercially distribute any artwork from the software (“Art Assets”) in any derivative work or otherwise. Microsoft grants you a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to use, reproduce and distribute the Art Assets on a non-commercial basis only.

  (B) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you any rights to use Microsoft’s name, logo, or trademarks.

  (C) If you begin patent litigation against Microsoft over patents that you think may apply to the software (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit), your license to the software ends automatically.

  (D) If you distribute copies of the software or derivative works, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.

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• crossraleigh

  I figured it was either security or that the same or similar code was used in other MS games and you wanted to keep it away from the cheaters. I understand either way.

  Thanks. :)

  
  
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