the development of the successor and further patching of Ironseed was unlikely, the source code of "Ironseed 1" was released by the developers to the public under the GPL in March 2013. A final patch (v1.20.0016) was released with the source code, but also the forum was shut down. Later version 1.30.0001 was put on GitHub, for the first time including the graphic assets and sound effects under GPL, but the commercial DMP sound module stripped out to comply with its license. From the source code release missing is also the soundtrack, while it seems the rights on the soundtrack still belong to the developers. For instance, Morgan redistributes the soundtrack on his personal website and also the freeware release included the soundtrack. In September 2013, due to availability of the source code, a Free Pascal and SDL based port for Linux became available on GitHub. In August 2015 the Ironseed.com mainsite went offline without warning, but came back online in January 2016 under a new ironseed.net domain. In April 2016 the game was ported to the ARM-based Pandora handheld, based on the previous Linux port. Since August 2020, there is bugfixed SDL port available. Port and Rerelease Work on a re-skinned rerelease by the original developers as a port for Windows is underway using the Unity Engine. Samples and the forum for discussion can be found on reddit in the ironseed subreddit. Reception Ironseed received a Top Dog award from Home of the Underdogs, who highlighted the game's replayability through the random planets and options, and allowance of different playing styles through the various ship designs and crews. It drew comparisons with the earlier Starflight series and the later Master of Orion. In March 1995 the Slovenian computer magazine "Megazin" rated Ironseed 63 of 100. In March 2017 Rock Paper Shotgun'''s Adam Smith revisited Ironseed, compared it to Star Control 2 and Captain Blood, and described it as "weird, trippy sci-fi that blew my tiny mind" and "a little bit Space Rangers, a little bit Star Control and just a teensy bit FTL." References External links Official website (Ironseed.com archived) Ironseed, website of programmer Robert W. Morgan. Ironseed 2 Interview on StarGamer.net'' (Internet Archive version, January 2008) 1994 video games 4X video games Role-playing video games DOS games Free software programmed in Pascal Linux games Science fiction video games Real-time strategy video games Space trading and combat simulators Commercial