Therefore if you want to make use of them and the functionality is not optional in your app, app developers may decide to drop support of older Android versions in favor if being able to use new features of new Android versions. The main problem is that newer Android versions include interesting new features that are not (fully) available using the compatibility system Google provides. Therefore the common way is option 1 – one app that has all compatibility fixes included. This way is often not used or only if the app has been completely rewritten for new devices and for old devices the old version remains with minimal to no support. The second option is of course very costly as you have to develop maintain each app app version independently (or at least large parts of the app).
I dont have the steam version of KSP and i still download it through my account here, i think they also had the previous version up for download for a while.ĮDIT: So not for free, but within the constrains of the currently available distribtion methods is perfectly possible.There are two ways to support old Android versions:īuild one app that makes use of compatibility patches to supports old Android versions (down to a specific version) but also support all modern Android versions.īuild two or more apps each for a set of Android versions. They could also just put them up for download on their own website under your account. (Not sure if that is still the case, but it was at some point). ArmA3 used it to allow the previous stable build to be downloaded through entering a code. Not really, Steam allows multiple versions of a game to be active (Through the beta tab under properties), it is usually used for development builds and stuff, but it can be used for older versions as well. No matter if they want to let us download the later iterations or not, they would end up in deep legal yoghurt if they did.
You are aware that legal, steam and other corporate excrements happened after the versions they released for free (since they've already released them from free). If you're interested in what exactly you'll find the KSP Wiki has an overview of the version history. I'd encourage you to give it a try!Īs for the legal notice: these builds of Kerbal Space Program are offered "as is" without any warranty and with the express warning that we cannot accept any liability for damages resulting from their use (though, they should work just fine). It's always been great revisiting the past to play around with a version of KSP from before it had such fancy tools as tank stacking, symmetry mode in the VAB or even a persistent save file. With the great help of and we're now able to once again offer these versions for download, from an official source no less! I wanted to make these versions of Kerbal Space Program available to download again, but using the old files which had not come from Squad directly would not be wise. Now it's 2016 (time flies when piloting rockets) and unfortunately the community sourced downloads for these old versions were recently made unavailable 1. After the forum breakage in 2013 was awesome enough to restore the post and provide new links for all these 'community sourced' old and free versions of KSP, and I'd like to give a him a special mention here for that. Almost all free versions of the game were eventually brought together and offered for download. People brought in more versions of the game that had then already seemed lost to eternity. Versions 0.7.x up to 0.13.x were free for those brave enough to try them.īack in 2012 when I was a new member of this community I collected these versions of KSP and uploaded them for others to enjoy. Those of you who have been around for a long time will know that Kerbal Space Program started out as freeware.
It's been quite a ride from the first, careful steps to a full fledged rocketry game that has inspired many people around the world. 5 years ago Felipe started work on a 2.5D game that would eventually grow to the game that we all know and love. It's been a long time since development of Kerbal Space Program began.