29 Nov
2025
29 Nov
'25
9:48 p.m.
The games Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III have been open sourced and released under the MIT license. Now these games were released in the early 1980s and today you have to be a fairly hard core retro gamer to go for these games. Still, nice to see these games can now (subject to the license conditions) be (legally) distributed and made available in the retro game community. Details can be seen here : https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped... Now the open source release of Zork I - III is a good thing, but ... I don't know when / if the copyright holder will release the source code for other similar games that were originally released by the same people as Zork I - III. Colin