since were getting worms reloaded on steam, how likely is it for team 17 to make a steam version of the classic worms with the original music and speech, with player hosted games?

Not that likely. It doesn't run on modern machines since it's a pure DOS game. You would need an emulator like DOSBox to run the game. That would need a lot of time to get it right.

Although i'd love to play it again. I never got it to run without hitches in DOSBox.

Not that likely. It doesn't run on modern machines since it's a pure DOS game. You would need an emulator like DOSBox to run the game. That would need a lot of time to get it right.

Although i'd love to play it again. I never got it to run without hitches in DOSBox.
All the classic games on Steam come with DOSBox built-in so that's not a problem.

No idea where the rights lie now though since all the old Worms publishers have died.

i thought team 17 had the rights to the entire worms franchise?, anyways i know that game would sell, especially among the many long time worm fans, nostalgia is a powerful thing :)

i thought team 17 had the rights to the entire worms franchise?, anyways i know that game would sell, especially among the many long time worm fans, nostalgia is a powerful thing :)
They have the rights to the intellectual property, but they do not necessarily have the rights to publish.

The original Worms was published by Ocean Software, which was bought up by Infogrames and renamed to Infogrames UK.
Infogrames themselves renamed to Atari, after they bought up that company too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Software

Funnily enough, Microprose, who published Worms 2, were bought up by Hasbro, which in turn were also bought up by Infogrames.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprose

Titus Software, the publishers for Worms World Party went bankrupt and are defunct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Software

All of those games are or have been published by budget labels such as Sold-Out (now Mastertronic), Green Pepper or online distributors like TryGames.

In conclusion, all this is a big mess, which makes new ways to distribute very difficult.
(Let alone the often requested release of source code, which adds in the numerous contract programmers that T17 used in the past.)

A good indication for this is the fact that T17 mainly sell Sold-Out budget versions of their own games in their own online store.

Worms United would be the best bet if they were gonna release a classic game, since it has more features but the old physics.

All I need it's only Worms Reloaded and Worms Armageddon (both with Russian lang support) running under Win7 64 and using Steamworks for network games + Steam Clouds system. I'm dreamer?)

Worms United would be the best bet if they were gonna release a classic game, since it has more features but the old physics.
Worms DC would be even better, with pigeons, grannies and the famous sheep-on-a-rope. :D

Incidentally, a few years back, there was a rumour that Andy Davidson was again working on WDC, adding more stuff that he never got to implement back in the day.
Gotta ask S2K again.