Arctic Adventure Freeware Release Notes - March 2009
Arctic Adventure is (c)1990/2009 Apogee Software, Ltd.
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This game was deleted from Apogee's product line quite some time ago, and has been re-released as freeware in March of 2009.  Back in the earliest days of Apogee in the 1980's George Broussard wasn't always involved with the company.  He and Scott Miller were always friends, but in the 80's, they had separate companies.  George's was called Micro/FX.  He produced a few titles on his own from those days, Arctic Adventure was one of them.  When George joined on to Apogee Software, some of his Micro/FX titles were rolled into the Apogee product line.  This was one of them.

That's about all the backstory to this one there really is.  Even by the other freeware releases from us, this one is seriously old, so much so that we don't even know when it was officially released, the best our archival notes say were "Unknown 1990", although the original Micro/FX release would have been in the late 80's somewhere.

1) We offer no support in helping to getting this freeware release running.  YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN HERE.  DON'T ASK US - YOU WILL BE IGNORED. :)

2) This game was released before Windows 2000 & Windows XP (or Vista, or even Windows 95) were released, and as such, these more modern operating systems might have issues in running the game.  A third party program called DOSBox has been known to have been helpful in getting the game running.  You can obtain DOSBox here: http://www.dosbox.com

3) This game is released as freeware.  That's not to be confused with public domain, abandonware (which is illegal), or releasing something under the GPL.   This is a freeware release, which means we retain full legal rights to the title and it's materials.  You are free to play the game as we've released it, but not free to "do whatever you want with it", which includes selling it or otherwise using the materials in other projects.

Traditionally, in the past, when we have released freeware, we've gotten the original developer to say a few words about the release.  This won't be the case with Arctic Adventure.  When questioned about this, George's response was "There's only six people who will care about this."  ;) Seriously, he was gracious enough to let the game be released as freeware, but didn't have anything to say about it otherwise.

Enjoy Arctic Adventure!
-- Apogee Software Ltd. Tech Support, March 2009
