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Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
In collaboration with Jason Scott, the well-known digital archivist of Internet Archive fame, they have officially submitted upstream pull requests to the historical source repositories of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III. Those pull requests add a clear MIT LICENSE and formally document the open-source grant.
Each repository includes:
- Source code for Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III.
- Accompanying documentation where available, such as build notes, comments, and historically relevant files.
- Clear licensing and attribution, via MIT LICENSE.txt and repository-level metadata.
This release focuses purely on the code itself. It does not include commercial packaging or marketing materials, and it does not grant rights to any trademarks or brands, which remain with their respective owners. All assets outside the scope of these titles' source code are intentionally excluded to preserve historical accuracy.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 26, @01:06PM (1 child)
Come on AI just call them "feelies" we've been using that since at least the turn of the century although I don't remember it contemporary.
I don't think you get the full "Deadline" experience without a gray box containing a little evidence bag with tablets in it, a typewritten coroners report, crime scene photos, fingerprint sheets, lab reports, memos, etc.
Deadline was sort of a computer mediated "solve a mystery". They're surprisingly popular now a days and I'm not into that genre but I would be surprised if there were not mobile phone games to "solve a mystery".
IIRC Zork came with a not terribly helpful map and a VERY short sort-of-dnd-sourcebook about the zork universe. Unnecessary but cool looking. IIRC the zork world is geographically reminiscent of the LotR world map LOL. Like really you put forests and mountains in the same spots? Really?
Anyway if the feelies are still copyrighted you can do the usual "yo ho ho" stuff to none the less find pictures of people's feelie collections.
Feelies were an interesting anti-piracy scheme, I don't think the fake ID in "Lurking Horror" is worth list price but it feels better to buy the box. In the late 90s before steam you'd get HUGE game boxes that were empty except for a single cdrom in a paper sleeve, nothing else. Sure I'd "copy that floppy" but I wouldn't copy a GUE-Tech student ID card sort of a cool little relic.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy feelies were hilarious.
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Wednesday November 26, @06:18PM
I personally appreciate the honesty of that. Gamer crack is also acceptable though.