This won't be the fault of Microsoft if the Infocom stuff is lost, that's the fault of Activision. Source? I was there. I worked at Activision soon after Bobby Kotick took over, and worked on both the Zork Anthology, as well as on Return To Zork. The original Infocom server was bought/taken home by another coworker, and I had/have a backup of it somewhere. When we were working on the various ports, there was a ton of source code missing, and there were no organization documents for anything. In a bunch of cases, we had to reach out to the original Infocom staff to try and make sense of it.
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