Atari Accuses Tempest 2000 Dev Of Copying Tempest 2000

[Deacon Cole]

To those interested, the original 1981 Tempest is playable here. [http://my.ign.com/atari/tempest]

It's not perfect because the original arcade game used a spinner, not a mouse. That said, it's a more playable version than I would have thought.

 

[Scow2]

Looks alike to me. Be interested to know if any snippets of code he made for Atari ended up in this game.

If he wrote both, chances are lines from both will be similar or the same even if he started the second from scratch.

Unless he took stuff home or lifted code entirely from the old product (like say, Silicon Knights did with Unreal Engine 3) trying to claim ownership of his code because it's like code he wrote in the past is like trying to claim every painting an artist ever creates because they use the same brush strokes as one they made for you a decade ago.

In logical terms it's bollocks, but since copyright law frequently ignores logic I hope the internet sways Atari's opinion, like it did with King during the whole Banner Saga episode.

More like music licencing... and precedent comes down on the side of the artist. You cannot plagiarize yourself.

 

[Olrod]

Exactly what lines of code are Atari claiming copyright of?

"goto 10"?