I found this today and tried the best PoP game ever:
<link removed due to illegal site>
<NOT> AWESOME!

I'd be a little suspicious of the legality behind this. We had something like it show up earlier in the year.

ARGH! JAVA! NOOOO!

Prince of Persia was da shit, but the only thing better than it is PoP2. God that game was incredible. I loved every bit of it, though I don't think I ever finished it.

The original PoP might be freeware... not sure.
If they have anything else though, it could be in murky legal waters.
I'd be suprised if this was properly authorised.
Also, I'd much rather use dosbox.

This looks sooooo illegal.

Isn't POP1 freeware now? I had some vague memory of reading that a while ago.
There's an online speccy emulator that has numerous games and has been running for years, wonder if that's even remotely legal

I would be incredibly surprised if PoP is freeware. Its not the Ubisoft way of doing things.
Edit: Just realised that their number one game is Indy and the Last Crusade which we all know is not Freeware. I would say there is nothing murky about that website and its illegal.

Whoot, too much inaccuracies for a single thread :-P
In primis, the original PoP isn't freeware at all. It's still a commercial software, end of the story.
In secundis, the original PoP has an important place in the gaming history having been one of those cinematic platformers to which the entire industry owes much more that you can imagine.
Furthermore, that site is a very piece of shit that crashed my Firefox and my PC. Who coded it, a drunken monkey?

Looking at the other games they have (truckloads) it's pretty clear the site isn't exactly legit.

I just though I'd read something about POP1 being released as freeware. Presumably I was wrong or it was a discussion of the possibility that never happened or something

Among other things, it was the first game ever to use motion capture for animations. IIRC, the programmer's younger brother supplied the movements for the prince.

Well, more than "motion capture" rotoscoping is a way to reproduce somewhat fluid movements on a digital avatar taking them from a live action model. Nothing to see with digital tags and uber-tech-super-speedy cameras :-P
Anyway I was referring more to the way the game tells its story (and how this combines with action and gameplay) than any other things....

From Wikipedia:
"Motion capture, motion tracking, or mocap are terms used to describe the process of recording movement and translating that movement onto a digital model." ... "This is comparable to the older technique of rotoscope where the visual appearance of the motion of an actor was filmed, then the film used as a guide for the frame by frame motion of a hand-drawn animated character."
So yeah, I guess the correct term would be "rotoscoping", even though the definition of motion capture applies to the process as well.
At any rate, it's still a definitive milestone in games that PoP is responsible for.

Generally speaking, unless a game had a very liberal free software license, I don't think this would be legal regardless. Even games like C&C Red Alert or Alien Carnage would be illegal to run this way, even though it is possible to get free and legal copies of those games.