Ed, The ZCode stuff was external to the OS - I just did the OS part. I was doing outside contract work for Infocom on that project and they were just great to deal with. I lived in New Hampshire back then, after having left Origin Systems (NH) to start up a new company (Inside Out Software). I went to Infocom a few times but never saw any of the well-known designers there, although I know for a fact that Steve Meretzky was there one time because we chat about that a little. We took over a project that Brian Moriarty was working on before he left to do LOOM for LucasArts...
Wolf3D-wise, yes the copyright had lapsed on Castle Wolfenstein. Muse Software went out of business in 1985 so seven years later when we were looking for the owner of the copyright it ended up that someone bought their inventory and was selling that from their house, but didn't keep up any of the copyrights so we just registered it and got it. - John > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Franks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Greetings > > > > On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:41 AM, John Romero wrote: > > > Speaking of Zork, y'all might not care (or you might think > it's neat), > > but I co-created Infocom's "InfoDOS" that was the OS for Zork Zero, > > Arthur & 2 other Infocom titles. Back in the 80's. :O > > I love the old Infocom games. Zork is one of my > favorite series and I > was glad to see the games were available on the Apple II to the very > end. Was it difficult to fit that version of the ZCode interpreter > onto an Apple II? Did you have to make any compromises from > the other > versions? How was it working with Infocom (Activision?) at that time? > > On an unrelated note, there's something I'm curious > about. I remember > reading in an old issue of CGW that when you guys came to name Wolf3D > you did a search for the then-current owner of Silas Marner's Castle > Wolfenstein. CGW claimed that the copyright had somehow > lapsed in the > many changes of hands CW went through (someone was supposedly still > selling copies from their garage). Is that story true or did > you just > buy the existing CW copyright? > > -- > > Edward Franks > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently > subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, > send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe > swcollect' Archives are available at: > http://www.mail-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
