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Infocom's text-based adventure games were groundbreaking for their time.
Image: Microsoft
Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license.
“Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post.
Open-sourcing classic games is one way to preserve them for the future, allowing people to keep experiencing them even after their original builds are no longer supported on modern machines.
These three Zork text-based adventure games from Infocom pioneered interactive fiction and ran on the early Z-Machine engine. This allowed them to be widely distributed in the 1980s and 90s pre-internet.
Note that the games’ commercial packaging, marketing materials, and trademarks remain protected by copyright! The games’ source code are what have been made freely available.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Viktor Eriksson, Contributor, PCWorld
Viktor writes news and reports for our sister sites, M3 and PC för Alla. He is passionate about technology and is on the ball with the latest product releases and the hottest talking points in the consumer tech industry.
Recent stories by Viktor Eriksson:
Image: Microsoft
Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license.
“Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post.
Open-sourcing classic games is one way to preserve them for the future, allowing people to keep experiencing them even after their original builds are no longer supported on modern machines.
These three Zork text-based adventure games from Infocom pioneered interactive fiction and ran on the early Z-Machine engine. This allowed them to be widely distributed in the 1980s and 90s pre-internet.
Note that the games’ commercial packaging, marketing materials, and trademarks remain protected by copyright! The games’ source code are what have been made freely available.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Viktor Eriksson, Contributor, PCWorld
Viktor writes news and reports for our sister sites, M3 and PC för Alla. He is passionate about technology and is on the ball with the latest product releases and the hottest talking points in the consumer tech industry.
Recent stories by Viktor Eriksson:
