@thetechguy: How do you know?
The initial audience kind of fizzled out, and for a cult hit, that is a big deal, because that could, and in this case did, lead to loss of funding.
They never officially declared it abandoned though. At best, the rediscovery of the game may want to make them re-release it on itch.io in its current form, since Indie game distribution has gotten much easier as of late. Or it may give us permission to host on a g archive. Or we may hear nothing at all, in which case it is probably ok to pursue the under-the-table distribution manner a bit further given a month's time. Keep in mind that we are in the middle of a pandemic, and a person checking an 8year old company's email address may very well not be the first thing on their mind, so seriously. Give it time.
If you want to distribute the game off forum, particularly if you, like me, were a paying customer and lost the game download, knock yourself out. But given the pm situation requires everyone post, there's no way to avoid public knowledge of distribution, and plus the right thing to do would be to first try contacting the developer before resorting to that.
The difference between this and Bavisoft is that Bavisoft pulled a bate-and-switch in 2009, asking those hosting copies of their games to take them down while still soldiering on with their partially complete shipping and not filling orders in a timely manner, and a lack of tech support not to mention a hard-to-reach sales department.
