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Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
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This is great news! I had to use Internet Archive to download Unreal Tournament 1999 as i lost the disk ages ago and still play online to this day. Epic shut down the UT99 master server browser a year ago, but everyone is playing it using the community patches anyways.
Links for those who wanna play UT99:
https://archive.org/details/unreal-tournament-complete
https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/tag/v469d
Wow UT99 is still going. I might have to take a look at that again. It's been years.
It looks like the reviews to the archive.org upload are full of harmful links likely containing malware. Not sure about the main file.
I know this is a late reply, but thank you for pointing that issue out. All of the spam comments were reported to the Internet Archive staff team and I am happy to update that The Internet Archive has since removed all the spam reviews, and they have also disabled all further reviews on this upload going forward.
The main files are safe to use and are not affected by reviews. I have been personally using this same exact upload not long after it was initally released in 2021. Perhaps I'll make a separate post going more in-depth on how to get UT99 up and running on modern hardware, along with posting the virus scans for reassurance. There are extra precautions you can take with any game that is this old. I run it in a sandboxed environment for example. This isn't necessarily required (especially if your game is on the latest patches) and might be seen as overkill, but I figured it was also worth mentioning.
I sincerely hope that the spam didn't deter anyone from trying out such a great game. UT was very influential in my childhood and also influenced the FPS genre in general.
Long live UT!