like icurafu said, that quote from the forum (and in turn from the wiki page) is dated from june.
however, this *is* worth getting your hopes up for:
zc beta downloadsi think this is actually what argor was referring to. the fact that 2.5 is in beta (though the builds are referred to as alpha?) right now and apparently there's a working linux build. no source though.
there are a lot of quests and stuff, i played this a long time ago and remember thinking it was cool, i think you could play the original with LTTP graphics?
i think that for a project that's been shuffled around & stalled so much (close to 10 years!), it probably should have been open to begin with, but whatever. then again, i guess someone could have made or adapted an existing sdl tile-based 2d game engine...it's just a very niche thing.
but there are lots of homebrew packs for it, so it should be cool if it's released. plus, considering that ED basically sent $200 their way, it'd be awfully
nice of them.