Alphaman -- Question about Status

[mannix]

Here's a question I am hoping someone may be able to answer for me regarding
Alphaman: Is the game still to be considered shareware?

Recent posts in rec.games.roguelike.angband regarding licensing issues and
my tripping across the 1999 review on ZDNet of this 1995 game [see snippet
below] lead me to ponder this question, as I am guessing no one (or hardly
anyone, take your pick) treats it as shareware anymore. Was the game ever
reclassified by its author? Does anyone know how to reach this individual
(Jeffrey R. Olson) to perhaps get the source code and port it over to an
extra-DOS platform?

Here's the closing line from the ZDNet review -- available at
http://shareware.gamespot.com/rpg/000xxu.html --

<quotation>
"It's fun, however, and although it's technically outdated (and therefore
overpriced), it's a nice throwback to the days when computer gaming was a
little simpler."
Reviewed on Feb 24 1999.
</quotation>

Thanks in advance.
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[Jeff Olson]

On 16-Dec-1999, "mannix" <l...@bway.net> wrote:

> Here's a question I am hoping someone may be able to answer for me
> regarding
> Alphaman: Is the game still to be considered shareware?

I wrote AlphaMan, and I don't consider it to be shareware anymore. The
problem with with the source code is that it is not easily portable (too
much assembler) and probably not worth the trouble.

The e-mail address given in the game is dying as of the new year, and a
better address at which to reach me is ca_j...@yahoo.com.

Regards,
Jeff Olson

[William Tanksley]

On Sat, 18 Dec 99 06:02:17 GMT, Jeff Olson wrote:
>On 16-Dec-1999, "mannix" <l...@bway.net> wrote:

>> Here's a question I am hoping someone may be able to answer for me
>> regarding
>> Alphaman: Is the game still to be considered shareware?

>I wrote AlphaMan, and I don't consider it to be shareware anymore. The
>problem with with the source code is that it is not easily portable (too
>much assembler) and probably not worth the trouble.

I'm sory to hear that -- Alphaman was pleasantly creative. I didn't play
it because I had so many other fun things to play :-) which were free :-(.

If you don't mind answering a question from someone who never did you any
good, if the game isn't shareware then what is it? May we distribute it
freely? It's quite within your rights to declare it undistributable, and
in fact if you don't at least informally issue a new license, your
revocation of the old license makes all current copies contraband.

>The e-mail address given in the game is dying as of the new year, and a
>better address at which to reach me is ca_j...@yahoo.com.

>Jeff Olson

--
-William "Billy" Tanksley, in hoc signo hack

[Cybernard]

Jeff Olson wrote:

> On 16-Dec-1999, "mannix" <l...@bway.net> wrote:
>
> > Here's a question I am hoping someone may be able to answer for me
> > regarding
> > Alphaman: Is the game still to be considered shareware?
>
> I wrote AlphaMan, and I don't consider it to be shareware anymore. The
> problem with with the source code is that it is not easily portable (too
> much assembler) and probably not worth the trouble.
>

> The e-mail address given in the game is dying as of the new year, and a
> better address at which to reach me is ca_j...@yahoo.com.
>

> Regards,
> Jeff Olson

BTW Jeff, are you still working on the new project?