Supaplex

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eMTe
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Supaplex

Post by eMTe »

Supaplex is freeware.

The guy from this site investigated its status and found out that Digital Integration who owned rights to the game still exists. So he asked about Supapplex and they granted him rights to distribute the game.

http://www.elmerproductions.com/sp/dlinst.html

Somewhere in, or before 1991 a group of students (Philip Jespersen, Michael Stopp, Robin Heydon) were in need of a project to program. They decided to make a Boulderdash clone. After a lot of hard work, their game (then called "Think") was completed, and they sold it to Digital Integration.

The name "Think" was apparently already in use in another game somewhere, so to avoid legal problems they changed the name to "Supaplex", the name everyone now knows well.

Supaplex was originally programmed for Amiga. Later the company also made ports for Macintosh (where it was called Infotron) and the PC.
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Re: Supaplex

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Sadly we cannot host this as the rights are not in the hands of the developers anymore, and the company that holds the rights no longer exist, but legally still holds the rights. As this was commercial once, and a classic, then I think it might be too risky to decide to host for us. Sorry guys. :(
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