With caveats:
- Abandonware isn’t actually “safe”, legally speaking.
- But Activision has never objected to the games floating around. Or the source code, now, either.
- A lot of people say that Zork 1/2/3 are freeware because Activision posted the games for free download, for promotional reasons, on the ZGI web site. (Or RtZ? I think it was ZGI.) This is, I believe, wishful thinking; that web site is long gone.
- But, again, see above. It’s been easy to find Zork 1/2/3 downloads for decades.
- As far as we know, HHGG is now owned by the estate of Douglas Adams, not Activision. I say that because Adams had it on his personal web site when he was alive, and then licensed it to the BBC.
- As far as we know (again), Shogun is now owned by the estate of James Clavell. I say that because they seem to have buried it as far down in a gravel pit as they could manage.
:)Shogun was never reprinted after the 1992 LTOI2 CD-ROM collection.