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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Scotty...
Message-ID: <1994May10.182841.28394@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <2qeromINNpdh@gecko.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1994May9.114237.19782@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 18:28:41 GMT
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In article <1994May9.114237.19782@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> wuerdema@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Henning Wuerdemann) writes:
>Some time ago I have asked to get these adventures for the mac. To that time
>Russ Wetmore owned the copyright of the games for the mac. Another netter, Greg
>Donoho, got a mail from Russ. Here's basically what it said...
>
>>I used to run a software company called "Star Systems Software." We licensed
>>the rights to the Mac version of Scott's adventures back in 1984. As far as I
>>can determine from our contract, when Scott's company went bankrupt a couple
>>of years later, the rights to the Mac version reverted in perpetuity to Star
>>Systems, which assigned the rights to me personally when Star Systems folded.
>> 
>>I've never had to test this assumption, since there hasn't been a market for
>>Scott's games in recent years. However, enough people have contacted me
>>recently after the Internet discussion that I may go ahead and plan something
>>for the future.
>> 
>>In the meantime, I've been selling the Mac version over time for $15 a
>>copy.  The packages I have don't currently work on anything other than the
>>68000 (I developed the interpreter with the Consulair Mac C compiler, which
>>used self-modifying code in its libraries which fails on more recent 680x0's)
>>but it should be a fairly simple matter of recompiling the sources with THINK
>>C. If I can find them...
>>        [ Russ ]
>
>>His address is still R.WETMORE@AppleLink.Apple.COM.
>
>On the other side do I have a book with some listings of adventures for the 
>TRS80, which contains also a listing of ADVENTURELAND, so I think this game is
>PD.
>
Nothing of the sort - read thje book copyright and for pirate read the
byte copright!

BTW: SOmeone needs to ask Russ if the databases are still in Trash80 format
if so then ScottFree will run them anyway with out any conversions and
crap. (It even emulates several bugs!)

Alan

