[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Chris Ott]

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.

I was going to tell you where to get the games, but I got to this site:

     http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/games.html

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

Diana A. Clarion wrote:
> Someone ported those over?  Sign me up!
> 
> :o)
> 
> DAC
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:04:38AM -0400, Chris Ott wrote:
> 
>>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