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Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:31 pm
by Garius_Lupus
Just discovered these sites:
This one has all of the infocom games for downloading:
http://www.latz.org/infocom/index.shtml
This one has all of the infocom games for playing online, including the ability to save games:
http://infocom.elsewhere.org/
This one has an elaborate chronology of Quendor:
http://quendor.robinlionheart.com/
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:00 pm
by DataAngel
great link resources!
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 9:59 pm
by Afgncaap5
Just to keep Activision happy with us (because I'm almost sure that this place has just slightly more advocates against game downloading than your average emulation site), I'll state this again:
It's not legal to download Infocom games unless you own the originals with a few exceptions such as:
-The Zork Trilogy (released as Freeware by Activision when ZNem was released)
-Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (Made as Freeware by Activision when ZGI was released)
-The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams repurchased the rights to it and pretty much made it Freeware).
There are a few other exceptions, but those are the best.
Anyway, with that disclaimer outta the way, go ahead and download if you haven't already.
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 10:47 pm
by DataAngel
Theres a point when after so many years ANY game becomes freeware, I don't recall but I think it was 10 years or something. In any case I wouldn't worry about d/ling ANY text games. They are way to old and chances are they wouldn't even bother to try and sue you.
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:57 am
by Nemesis
I agree with DAT about that, but I think games become freeware are 15-20 years. It might depend on what the company originally decides. But no one's going to care about pirating text games. They're too old.
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 3:17 pm
by Basse
Hold on a sec. Z TUU was freeware, but that was the demon. How do I get the full version?
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:48 pm
by Nemesis
The full version of what? ZTUU? If so, then there wasn't a full version. If there is, then someone's been hiding something.
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 8:43 pm
by DataAngel
the only thing I got was whatever was released???
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:32 pm
by Basse
At the candy bar puzzle it says it's a demo. Has anybody completed ZTUU?
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 4:17 am
by DataAngel
lol I haven't even started it ;-} well okay I STARTED it then stopped it haha.
Re: Download or play infocom games online
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 11:01 am
by Nemesis
I have! Maybe by demo it means a demo for ZGI?