Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

["Adam Atkinson" <ghira@mistral.co.uk>]

On 24-Aug-99 17:28:46, Crispin Boylan said:

>Any chance of Kingdom Of Hamil, Quondam and Acheton itself?

The sources for Hamil, Murdac, Avon and Acheton still exist. I think
those for Spy do as well. Things look pretty bad for Hezarin, Quondam
and Xerb: at present, the best chance we have would be to recover the
binaries from a tape backup of Phoenix, decompile them somehow, and
then turn those into z-code. It is claimed that there may be a printout
of the Quondam source somewhere, in which case we could type it all in.

>I'd love to play the full Hamil - or are their copyright problems?

We would need Topologika's blessing to produce zcode versions of
Hamil, Murdac, Quondam, Acheton or Avon. Or indeed the Doom games.

I'm not sure if we need a blessing to release BrandX ... it could be
argued that it's not Philosopher's Quest in the same way that Dungeon
isn't Zork I/II/III.

Such a blessing is being sought - all the authors have said if it's ok
by Topologika, it's ok by them. Graham and I have the matter in hand -
please don't anybody else contact Topologika about this.

The Doom games and other non-Phoenix titles aren't likely to be
z-coded terribly soon, as they were written in a different language.
Indeed, the Phoenix games with Topologika releases were ported into
this other language. I'm told the Topologika releases were usually a
little different from the Phoenix originals - I've not seen the
Topologika versions. I did playtest "Last Days of Doom", though.

-- 
Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk)
BRITISH PUSH BOTTLES UP ENEMY