Dungeoneer Games have released — albeit, for now, only in a limited run of fifty copies on 5.25″ diskettes — Andrea Schincaglia’s Commodore 64 port of Richard Garriott’s Akalabeth:

Finally, after 36 years, with Lord British’s blessing, we are proud to present – in a limited edition disk version (#50 copies only available) – Akalabeth: World of Doom for Commodore 64, based on the original Apple II version.

Akalabeth will be released only on real disk, as it was distributed back in the 1980 by Richard Garriott. However, since the amount of hand numbered copies is extremely small, be quick to order yours by email.

Despite the amount of work dedicated on this conversion, we have no interest in making any profit on it, but we will ask you only to cover our expenses: disk, label, envelope and stamps. The conversion itself can be copied and distributed freely.

There’s no word, at present, as to whether a disk image will be released for download, and obviously no additional diskette copies are available at this time (the first fifty having been snapped up in a matter of a few hours). But as an excuse to inaugurate the new Akalabeth subdomain, I have set up a project entry.