Tyrian

originally submitted by Jack Gruendler:

Tyrian is an old computer game made by Epic Megagames (which has since gone out of business). It's a vertical-scrolling shooter, sort of like galaga or other older arcade games. It ran on DOS. It was also distributed as shareware, with the first set of levels only, for free, and instructions to buy the rest of the levels.

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Jack Gruendler:

I think Tyrian is a very good game, and I wanted to be able to play the full version. I've searched the internet looking for the current owner, but without success.

I am also a computer science student, and I would like to preserve the game. However, there is no way to do so without the source code - and even if I found a copy of the game, it wouldn't include the source. (The source is needed because the best way to preserve the software is to modify it to work with a modern operating system (instead of DOS), and it can't be done just once - it has to be redone for every new platform)

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