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"Zero Gravity is a tunnel racing game written in 100 % assembly for AGA machines with at least 1 Meg of fastmem. This freeware game is brought to you by Matthijs Hollemans, 1997. Have fun !" - http://aminet.net/package/game/race/zerogravity
By the way, [Hollemans] was added to the game only to differentiate it from the other commercial Zero Gravity, similarly to "Elf" and "Elf [MicroValue]"
Actually (and this is an important point), we should not use the words "Public Domain" (or PD) unless the game is known to be Public Domain (which is a legal term meaning that copyright is not claimed!). Most games are "Freeware" or "Shareware" (or similar), and not Public Domain. For example, The title screen of this screen notes that it is copyrighted, so it is definitively not Public Domain. If it's the full game and freely distributable, then "Freeware" is the best term.
I think, we should name such games as [PD] for Public Domain and not [developer]. For this reason, we could also make a flag "PD" and/or "COM" for Public Domain/Freeware and Commercial, if it makes sense...
"Zero Gravity is a tunnel racing game written in 100 % assembly for AGA machines with at least 1 Meg of fastmem. This freeware game is brought to you by Matthijs Hollemans, 1997. Have fun !" - http://aminet.net/package/game/race/zerogravity
Added [Hollemans] to be consistent with other cases where publisher is added to differentiate one of the games (when there is game name conflict).
Ok. I understand this. I could also make a cover for "Freeware".
By the way, [Hollemans] was added to the game only to differentiate it from the other commercial Zero Gravity, similarly to "Elf" and "Elf [MicroValue]"
Actually (and this is an important point), we should not use the words "Public Domain" (or PD) unless the game is known to be Public Domain (which is a legal term meaning that copyright is not claimed!). Most games are "Freeware" or "Shareware" (or similar), and not Public Domain. For example, The title screen of this screen notes that it is copyrighted, so it is definitively not Public Domain. If it's the full game and freely distributable, then "Freeware" is the best term.
I've created a standard cover skin for PD games. If anyone is interested, I can share the .psd file (Adobe Photoshop).
I think, we should name such games as [PD] for Public Domain and not [developer]. For this reason, we could also make a flag "PD" and/or "COM" for Public Domain/Freeware and Commercial, if it makes sense...