Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpa!freak From: freak@ihlpa.UUCP (c e malloy) Newsgroups: net.sources.games Subject: Re: Zork source wanted. Message-ID: <850@ihlpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 10:07:56 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpa.850 Posted: Thu Oct 31 10:07:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 04:36:00 EST References: <441@bbnccv.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 > There has been a sudden rash of questions about the old Zork adventure game > which has made me itchy to give it another go. > Does anyone out there have the source available? If there isn't enough need > to post it to the net (is it even public domain?!?), I'll be glad to send a > S.A.S.Tape to anyone who would take the time. The binaries won't help me > much since I'm on a 20 bit machine. > > --pat traynor-- > To the best of my knowledge Zork, including the original, is not in the public domain. If the original Zork was public domain, then InfoCom could not copyright Zork I because everything in Zork I was in the original Zork game. From inside the Tesseract of Clancy Malloy (ihnp4!ihlpa!freak) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Everyone looked up and realized that we were only tenants of this world; | | We have been given a new lease, and a warning, from the landlord. | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------