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TA Original

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 04:35
by ineedfire
To be honest I've long forgotten how to truly play TA...and the disk I had is long lost....does anyone know where I can dl a copy of the original, (preferably for free, but I wouldnt mind paying if its reasonable)

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 04:45
by LordMatt
You could do a Google search and see what comes up as far as places selling it.

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 08:18
by ineedfire
Yea, I couldnt really come up with anything that I trusted to give out a credit card number too heh...I guess ill just figure out the "No CD hack"

I still have it installed on my computer I think, the disc is just lost

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 08:47
by Forboding Angel

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 09:32
by jackalope
keep up the fight against piracy brave moderators and map makers, some day you will triumph.

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 14:11
by smoth
ebay.

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 16:48
by Foxomaniac
ineedfire wrote: I still have it installed on my computer I think, the disc is just lost
Community, meet Mr. Lost CD.

Mr. Lost CD, meet the "we're a shinning beacon of anti-piracy" community.

With that out of the way, I'm sure you'll find a no-cd h4x @ http://fileuniverse.com

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 17:01
by Relative
My local independent game store (UK) still sells TA packed in with TA: kingdoms for £5.

http://www.gamespod.co.uk/category.php? ... bmit=Go%21

It's great having an independent as a local :)

Re: TA Original

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 22:11
by manored
ineedfire wrote:To be honest I've long forgotten how to truly play TA...and the disk I had is long lost....does anyone know where I can dl a copy of the original, (preferably for free, but I wouldnt mind paying if its reasonable)
I didnt managed do download for free then I tried... but I found the cd I had... :P

You will be impressed with how diferent the old TA is from the versions we have on spring.

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 22:17
by Guessmyname
by the way: We have to be staunchly against piracy so that Atari won't sue us for using TA content

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 22:21
by LordMatt
Pirating the greatest game ever made (commercially) isn't cool. Besides you can get it for less than $10 these days. When my OTA CD started behaving funny I got the Commander Pack for like $8.75.

Posted: 05 Mar 2007, 22:21
by BlackLiger
Actually, if he did own a legal copy of OTA, AFAIK it's legal to download a copy of the CD to use, since you do have, somewhere, a legal copy of the game.


It's certainly been the case with my copy of Starlancer, which my tutor hasn't murdered me over yet (he was one of the level designers...)

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 04:14
by smoth
Foxomaniac wrote:Community, meet Mr. Lost CD.

Mr. Lost CD, meet the "we're a shinning beacon of anti-piracy" community.
three years ago in a fire, I lost everything I owned save my laptop,xbox some tau and my game binder.

If you wanna send me tons of import japanese models to help with gundam I'd consider free donations!

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 06:41
by LordMatt
smoth wrote: three years ago in a fire, I lost everything I owned save my laptop,xbox some tau and my game binder.
lol gotta save the important stuff. :P

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 06:46
by smoth
yeah, well I was home visiting family, I brought the stuff with me to give me something to do. Important stuff would have been stuff like my sweet old school valkrie from macross and... well I am not getting into it but yeah sucked to be me.

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 08:37
by Relative
smoth wrote:Important stuff would have been stuff like my sweet old school valkrie from macross and.
Macross and Valkyrie, now that is important stuff (not kidding either). Is that the cheesy robotech dub or real thing?

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 11:20
by KDR_11k
You know Smoth, you really need to change your avatar to Sergeant Keroro.

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 15:51
by Bobcatben
i got my copy at a microcenter 30 miles away about 5 years ago... for $5
a beat up ta box, looked like its been sitting in a warehouse forever, only one they had, sitting alone on a shelf... i couldn't resist that :P

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 16:06
by drolito
Spring is really free or we normally need a license to use it ???

Posted: 06 Mar 2007, 18:26
by Relative
drolito wrote:Spring is really free or we normally need a license to use it ???
To play TA based mods "legally" you need to own a copy of Total Annihilation. However, the spring engine itself is open-source and free.