Re: Copyrights..... enforced, unenforced, and in between.

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

axiom@nospam.net (Will) writes:

>In article <6igs96$kbu$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au 
>says...
>> Just a note: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's copyright has returned
>> to Douglas Adams, who co/wrote the game based on his radio/book/film series
>> of the same name. He plans to actively sell it with his next game project
>> after ST (which has just come out). The copyright on Shogun has returned to
>> it's original owner, and I'm not sure who that is or their plans for it.
>> So they should still be considerd "current" as well.

>If there are no plans to re-release them for the Apple II platform, then 
>I wouldn't consider them current.

But the thing is that the Infocom games use a virtual machine bytecode
which is independant of the computer used. Therefore the current selling
PC version, Mac version, etc. is bytewise identical to an Apple // version.
Thus the game is "current"... you can buy one of the Activision
compilation CD's, transfer the z-code gamefiles onto your Apple, and run
them with an Apple //e Infocom interpreter.

So most of the Infocom games are current, and as for HHG and Shogun,
HHG can still be obtained from Lost Treasures of Infocom 1, and with
DA's next released game, so it's current (or will be). The only one I'm
not sure about is Shogun, since I don't know if the original author has
any future plans for it.

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