Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
    • lauha@lemmy.world
      17·
      7 months ago

      Can’t wait for copilot to play games for me so I can work more hours at Amazon warehouse.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.world
    61·
    7 months ago

    Considering that afaik they were shipped in Z-code, the game code was already visible to any Z-machine implementation and to whoever wanted to fiddle with raw Z-code.

    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
      11·
      7 months ago

      Code being visible is not very useful if you can’t distribute it, extend it, expand it and improve it.