[game_preservation] The History behind Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Andrew Armstrong]

Julia Brasil wrote:

> On a secondary note, some people are not very happy with having their 

> private e-mail conversation posted online or not being contacted by Mr 

> Baio's prior to publishing the article. It seems to me the article 

> reflects the work of a historian piecing facts together than, as some 

> claim, investigative journalism. What is your take on the matter?

Always a problem, I'd say Simon was correct. It's a big barrier isn't 
it, legally and professionally, to get that kind of information even 
available. A lot of companies never want that going out in case it 
causes legal problems for them (obviously Infocom won't be able to stop 
this though).

And as for not talking to the people involved (and giving Mr Baio a poor 
writeup really) it is pretty hard to find contact details for them. I 
guess the writer Andy thought it better to put them up then not to, and 
in this case, it's not that bad.

I'm all for very old stuff coming forwards (paper or digitally) 
especially on unreleased projects, there is simply not much information 
about older things around, which is a shame (and no good writeups, or 
very few, of critical industry events). I can't condone use of 
copyrighted materials without permission, but there we go, something 
good does come from it now and again I must say.

Andrew