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http://everything2.com/e2node/ZZT

Also in 1993, Epic released a sequel of sorts to ZZT, cleverly titled Super ZZT. The game flopped; while having a few interesting improvements on the original, it suffered from use of an ugly low resolution textmode and several severe bugs and limitations (and these could not be worked around as they were in ZZT). In 1999, Epic released ZZT as freeware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzt

However when the game became obsolete it became freeware, with all four worlds of the registered version released for free.

http://madgames.adventuredevelopers.com/zzt/madzzt.htm

The full version, which has since been released as freeware, featured four different game "worlds" designed by Sweeney.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/zzt/p...html?id=180944

Now officially released as freeware, ZZT can be accessed by anyone

though i dunno, this is not "official", maybe they changed the status back?

edit: oh... look what i found http://www.epicgames.com/EpicClassics.html

www.epicclassics.com is not affiliated with Epic Games Inc. They are selling some of our older titles by mail order only.

they are not neither official epic classics distributor, nor they hold rights to the games. i wonder how could they get "new copies" of the games legally?