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Started by Questing Character, May 15, 2006, 01:41:02 AM

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Well, something did, but I don't think that was it. :P
 
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maybe someone kicked the "vital forum link" XB




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Quote from: Raforever on July 27, 2006, 07:34:13 AM
I bet it crashed the forum ;P
Nah, it actually said something like: "Too many results.  Please refine your search :suffer:"

The odd thing is now it's actually letting me search for it. :o XD
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now WHY would you want to look for suffering posts? ::)




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Any idea when the patch and voice pack will be released?  I am holding out until then to play the game because I want to see KQ III in all its glory.  It seems like a cease and desisit order from Vivendi only applies when someone is making a new quest based on an old but popular series like King's Quest as in the case of POS with TSL (formely KQIX).
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Quote from: dew7 on July 28, 2006, 06:19:57 PM
Any idea when the patch and voice pack will be released?  I am holding out until then to play the game because I want to see KQ III in all its glory.
I don't even need to be on the IA team to answer this one: :suffer:  XD

Quote from: dew7 on July 28, 2006, 06:19:57 PM
It seems like a cease and desisit order from Vivendi only applies when someone is making a new quest based on an old but popular series like King's Quest as in the case of POS with TSL (formely KQIX).
Well, they also sent a C&D to a sex-inspired parody called Quest For Orgy.  I don't believe that was a remake, but it's pretty obvious why Vivendi would want something like that to cease and desist. :P
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koko_99_2001

Oh, I understand :) Hope you didn't feel like I was being critical or anything. And I'm glad you're enjoying the demo so much. And you've done a great job of being "constructively critical" so it doesn't sound like you're "dissing" the game or anything :) Thanks for all your work to point out things that may not have been noticed before :)
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Nah, not at all.  I'm glad I'm most likely not coming across in a bad way with all these posts.  It's my pleasure to report "errors".  =)

btw, the cat in your avatar is extremely cute.  Lol.

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Quote from: Tage7 on August 15, 2006, 08:22:15 PM
btw, the cat in your avatar is extremely cute.  Lol.

Awww...thanks :) I've gotten that a lot lately :)
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dew7

Quote from: Baggins on August 16, 2006, 09:42:17 AM
Sierra has actually already sold a few of their IPs to other companies.

They sold the Goldrush IP back to the designers that made the game.


Apparently Mark Seibert was able to gain the rights to Pepper's Adventures in Time IP as he offers the game for free on his site.

They sold the IP to the online game  "The Realm" to another company that keeps it alive.


As a side note there are certain games that Sierra never owned the IP's for so they can't rerelease the games(black cauldron for example).

The Black Cauldron is now freeware.
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Baggins

#413
Who released it as "freeware"?

Are you sure it hasn't just been posted up as "abandonware" (which is not actually legal)?

Cause last I heard disney still owned the rights to it. Which was the reason why the disney Roberta Williams games sierra made were not able to be released in the Roberta Williams Anthology but only listed in the timeline in the manual.
Well, ya, King's Quest is on Earth. Daventry is very old city from a long time ago. It's in ruins now and people aren't quite sure exactly where it used to be. There are some archaeologists searching through the ruins, they think they know its Daventry. But its somewhere on Earth."-Roberta Williams http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/File:Daventryisearth.ogg

dew7

#414
The claim is Al Lowe -- Here is the site:

Google it and you will find it

He says they are abandoned so you are probably right.  I don't know all of the technicalities of abandonware.
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Baggins

#415
Well Abandonware isn't tecnically legal. Copyrights legally have about 70 years from the moment the product is copyrighted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware#Abandonware_and_the_Law

But hey Al Lowe is cool to throw laws to the wind, heh heh. Imo, Abandonware protects games that would likely be lost to history otherwise. Its also cool he's trying to make some money off his old games via donation buttons heh heh.

But I"m not sure you can actually post links to abandware games on this site, forum rules and all...

As a side note Ken Williams actually supports the concept of Abandonware and often has links to all sorts of sierra games on his fan website in the forums(therefore I can't link you to his site)...

He allows it despite the fact that Vivendi usually tries to protect their games from being passed around as abandonware. His view?

QuoteI have heard that there are sites that are distributing the old games. I even found one site that had the old Apple II games, and an emulator, for download! To the extent that Sierra doesn't object, I think it's great. Hopefully, they'll either distribute the old games, or look the other way as they are passed around the internet. I'd hate to see them just "cease to exist".
Whereas I would not post old Sierra games on this site, I am not opposed to including links to other sites here. I mentioned to one of Sierra's senior haunchos a couple of years ago that I had found a site from which to download all the old Apple games, and his only comment was to say "cool". My guess would be that Sierra will never officially bless the downloads, but neither are they likely to spend a lot of money chasing people who download games that can't be found in any other way.
That said, I feel very differently about people downloading a "really old" game like Kings Quest II than I do people downloading HalfLife. If a product can be found at retail, then any attempt to download it is piracy, and unacceptable behaviour. I see a distinction between preserving history and piracy.
-Ken Williams .

I guess if Al Lowe is putting games he worked on up as abandonware its possible that Mark Seibert might have put up the Pepper's game as abandonware as well. So it might be technically illegal.
Well, ya, King's Quest is on Earth. Daventry is very old city from a long time ago. It's in ruins now and people aren't quite sure exactly where it used to be. There are some archaeologists searching through the ruins, they think they know its Daventry. But its somewhere on Earth."-Roberta Williams http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/File:Daventryisearth.ogg

Rosella

#416
Daniel, you have yet to find out if we're related, and I gave you a common last name. :P
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youre cousins?  first related peoples on the forum. :P

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