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August 18, 2006

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Marathon is back again for free

Posted Aug. 18, ’06, 6:29 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Games

Rubicon Before Halo, Marathon was the hot game Bungie Studios made. It was even for Mac! The series was naturally very popular in our little community. I fondly remember the afternoons I spent playing it. Rubicon X is a completely new game, downloadable for free.

Marathon add-on scenarios and total conversions are nothing new, but Rubicon X is exceptional. It’s a completely new game that makes use of Aleph One, an open source descendant of the same engine that powered Bungie’s Marathon 2. Aleph One is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems, and also works with Intel-based Macs, through a variant that uses Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL).

Fire up your broadband connection and start downloading. It runs like Silk on my Mac Pro.


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