First, I think it’s a bit harsh to say 30 games is “every single (decent) Sam game” - depends what you mean by decent of course, but there’s already more than 30 commercial games on this site and there’s still a lot of software yet to catalogue.
Secondly, one of the problems with re-releasing old software is that it really is difficult to establish who owns what. Commercial companies like Enigma Variations have either ceased to exist, or been bought up by multinationals who would have no interest in licensing back their Sam properties.
Even if we assume that software copyright has reverted to the original author, those owners can be difficult to locate since most of them are not still active in the Sam community. As I gave said before, I do intend to start asking nicely for distribution permissions, but for the moment I have to ask you to be patient because it isn’t going to happen overnight.
Re: Availability of Sam games
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First, I think it’s a bit harsh to say 30 games is “every single (decent) Sam game” - depends what you mean by decent of course, but there’s already more than 30 commercial games on this site and there’s still a lot of software yet to catalogue.
Secondly, one of the problems with re-releasing old software is that it really is difficult to establish who owns what. Commercial companies like Enigma Variations have either ceased to exist, or been bought up by multinationals who would have no interest in licensing back their Sam properties.
Even if we assume that software copyright has reverted to the original author, those owners can be difficult to locate since most of them are not still active in the Sam community. As I gave said before, I do intend to start asking nicely for distribution permissions, but for the moment I have to ask you to be patient because it isn’t going to happen overnight.