Hi-Rez Studios has made all Tribes and Earthsiege games free downloads. I suspect you will need a Win98 rig to run them but the gesture is sure appreciated.
http://www.tribesuniverse.com/ (http://www.tribesuniverse.com/)
Looks like the games are all .iso downloads. I'll burn one to disk later and see if it will play on my Win7 box.
.iso will extract with Winrar, FYI.
I grabbed the "Starsiege and Tribes" from 1998 .iso hoping to get a copy of the original Tribes; which I loved. I installed it but it was only Starsiege which I never played and it would only do software rendering in a 640x480 box so off it went.
I did enjoy Tribes 2 for quite a while and may grab that .iso. Not sure if I want to go through with the hunting and installing all the mods that you really need for the hud's/etc.
Tribes Vengeance was "meh".
But Tribes Ascend - I just happen to of been playing that for the past few weeks and that is one hoot of a game. Better than the original Tribes and it has a very activity online community (still). No mods needed or accepted, just download it and play. You can purchase a weapon's pack or the GOTY edition to get all the unlocks up front but I'm having fun racking up the points to purchase them during play.
I played last night until 2:30a.m. which is a *very* rare occasion for me to play a FPS for that long but it was one of those "one more match's!". I was a juggernaut trying to defend our base. The bastards would come in and blow up our generator and everything else and I'd try and repair it. Next I sat outside our base on the side of a hill and bore-sighted my mortar to land right inside the tower where our flag was. I'd see a "reddie" trying to fly in for a swoop on our flag and I'd plop a mortar round that would hit just as he was making his grab. I was racking up a bunch of kills but they soon found my hiding spot. Anyways, fun game and definitely worth checking out for the price.