First post, by Kerr Avon
Night Drive Studios, who managed to get the rights to System Shock 2 a while back (so those of us who never bought that brilliant game back then could do so now) have reputedly obtained the rights to the first game too. So hopefully very soon System Shock will be available to purchase (sadly it's probably going to be download only, not a physical purchase with a box and everything), which is great news for those of us who only got to play SS via the brilliant System Shock Portable fan project, which is now no longer available, it was taken down when NDS informed SSP's host of their purchase of the game's rights.
It remains to be seen, though, if a newly purchasable version of System Shock will be fully recompiled to run natively in Windows and support modern first person shooter conventions (such as re-definable keys, proper mouse-look, higher resolutions, etc) or if it will just be the original DOS game, in which case players will probably have to add the features themselves, via the patches that were incorporated into SSP.
Anyway, now there'll be no excuse for people not to legally own this great game!