Marathon 2: Durandal

B.O.B.

The B.O.B. colonists take their names from the storyline. B.O.B. stands for "Born on Board", or not born on a planet or moon.

Durandal

The subtitle, Durandal, stems from a rogue artificial intelligence that is both aiding and foiling the player through the course of the game.

Freeware release

The complete Marathon trilogy has been freely released by Bungie to the public, you can download your copy at http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ . Be aware that these are the original Mac releases and the W95 Marathon 2: Durandal is not included in the pack so you are going to need a Mac emulator or Aleph One (http://source.bungie.org/) to run the titles.

Source code release

In 2000, when Bungie was bought by Microsoft, the full source code was released. Ever since, people have been modding the game. There even are ports for the Linux and BeOS platform. The full development diary and all the latest binaries can be found at Bungie's source page.

Information also contributed by Sciere and Zovni.