[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Matthew J. Hughes]

I just had to say that I got a collection of infocom games a few years 
ago for x-mas so somebody owns the copyright and is making them 
available for sale (in windows/dos environment at least). Unfortunately 
I misplaced the box so I can't help you with the upc, isbn, or anything. 
However if I want to look at older games I use The underdogs as a 
generally good reference site(if I am willing to put up with the ads). 
The link for infocom as a company is 
http://www.the-underdogs.org/company.php?id=210
They have a short description of the game, manuals, etc., and if no one 
has complained about the copyright violation they often times have the 
game. Otherwise they usually have a link to whoever is currently able to 
sell the game. One of the things I like about the site is that they have 
a "if you like this, try..." entry. The other thing is that they have 
extensive collection of freeware.
What I don't like about them is the horrible pop ups and slow load 
times. its the imdb of (dos)computer games.

Oh my I also wanted to contribute this link to the off topic discussion: 
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
You think it will always be there. but apparently when I wasn't looking 
it isn't gonna be there much longer. So, quick, quick and take a look 
while your nostalgic. And yes they even have a Wang or 2 on the site.

-Matt
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Diana A. Clarion wrote:

>I *think* I have DOS versions of the Infocom games here.  Somewhere.
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>I'll swing over to Freshmeat and see about the Z-machines.  What floats through
>my perverted little brain is that it shouldn't be impossible to hack up the
>games, themselves, once you know what they have to look like...
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>DAC
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>On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:58:13PM -0400, Chris Ott wrote:
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>>Just go to Freshmeat and type "z-machine" into the search field. You'll 
>>get a few to choose from. I use Frotz, myself. Once you get a Z-machine 
>>interpreter running, you can run pretty much any Infocom game.
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>>I was going to tell you where to get the games, but I got to this site:
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>>    http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/games.html
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>>and it tells me Activision does, as someone stated earlier, maintain 
>>copyright on all the Infocom games. It has, however, released Zork 1, 2, 
>>and 3 into the public domain. I guess that means I'll need to delete my 
>>LGoP and HHGttG and I won't be able tell you where to get them for free. 
>>I'll just tell you that you can.
>>
>>That's kind of annoying, considering you can't actually buy the games, 
>>anymore.
>>
>>Chris
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>>Diana A. Clarion wrote:
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>>>Someone ported those over?  Sign me up!
>>>
>>>:o)
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>>>DAC
>>>On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:04:38AM -0400, Chris Ott wrote:
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>>>>Actually, you don't need the C64s. There are at least a few Z-machine 
>>>>emulators out there and it's easy to find the games online. I'm guessing 
>>>>all the Infocom games are considered abandonware now, since it all seems 
>>>>to be entirely legal.
>>>>
>>>>I have a copy of LGoP and HHGttG at home that I can play on Linux.
>>>>
>>>>Chris
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