What is the Home of the Underdogs and what does it have to do with FreeSpace?
The Home of the Underdogs (or HotU as it is known in FreeSpace circles) is one of the biggest abandonware sites on the net. When a game hasn’t been available in the shops for years it tends to get put up on that site. Technically abandonware is illegal but since no one has made any attempts to close HotU down even though it is very well known it basically is assumed that no one in the companies involved cares much about it because the games are so old. As you may have guessed from all that FreeSpace is indeed old enough to have been placed on the HotU site. However FreeSpace 2 came on 3 CDs which makes it a big game even now so in order to save space the HotU version has been cut down to the bare essentials. The HotU version clocks in at 219MB which makes it possible for a dedicated FS2 fan on a 56k modem to download it. Obviously this drastic reduction in size comes at a high price. The HotU version is drastically cut down in features. First the in-game voice is reduced and music is g
