[[Image(Screenshots:abuse.png, align=right)]] = About = Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com in 1995. It features beautiful lighting, realistic animation and nasty alien-like creatures to destroy. This is the new home to Abuse and Abuse-SDL. I took over maintenance of that game to prevent it from vanishing from the Internet. Since Abuse's public domain release in 1997, the following improvements were made: * video output uses the SDL library, with optional OpenGL rendering * 64-bit platforms support * lots of crashes, memory leaks and general bugs fixed = Downloads = The latest official version is 0.7.1: * [/raw/Downloads/abuse-0.7.1.tar.gz abuse-0.7.1.tar.gz] (March 2nd, 2008) [[Image(Screenshots:title.png, align=right)]] Two sets of free level files are available. `abuse-lib` is the original shareware version of the game, released into the public domain. `abuse-frabs` is the result of a community effort to create free Abuse levels: * [/raw/Downloads/abuse-lib-2.00.tar.gz abuse-lib-2.00.tar.gz] (February 2nd, 1996) * [/raw/Downloads/abuse-frabs-2.11.tar.gz abuse-frabs-2.11.tar.gz] (March 2nd, 2008) The sound effects were not put into the public domain. Bobby Prince, the current copyright holder, still agreed to their redistribution: * [/raw/Downloads/abuse-sfx-2.00.tar.gz abuse-sfx-2.00.tar.gz] (February 2nd, 1996) A full registered game dataset is also available. Its licensing terms are unclear, but Jonathan Clark and Dave Taylor, the original Abuse authors, allowed it to be freely redistributed for Abuse-SDL: * [/raw/Downloads/abuse-data-2.00.tar.gz abuse-data-2.00.tar.gz] (February 2nd, 1996) = Development = Development takes place in a Subversion repository. You can [/browser/abuse/trunk browse it online] or check it out using `svn`: {{{ svn co svn://svn.zoy.org/abuse/abuse/trunk abuse-trunk }}} You can [/newticket report new bugs] or [/report/1 browse current bugs]. See also the [DevelopmentNotes development notes]. = Contact = Page maintained by [http://sam.zoy.org/ Sam Hocevar] Contact me if you want to help in any way: [mailto:sam@zoy.org] = Links = Unfortunately, most Abuse resources are now dead. Here are a few worthwile links and archived pages that really deserve to be salvaged: * [http://members.tripod.com/nickvrenna/about.html Cypress's Abuse page], with lots of downloads including Satan Paint and additional Abuse levels * [http://web.archive.org/web/20020601032818/www.abuse2.com/ abuse2.com archived page], again with lots of downloads * [http://web.archive.org/web/20060427023310/http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~cass0664/fRaBs/ fRaBs archived page] * [http://web.archive.org/web/20070205093016/http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~trandor/abuse/ Abuse-SDL archived page]