Abandonware ahoy!

Right_Behind_YouRight_Behind_You Join Date: 2002-04-23 Member: 501Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Fin yourself some oldies!</div><a href="http://www.classic-trash.com/" target="_blank">http://www.classic-trash.com/</a>

A little treat for you guys (more for the older gamers). There you will find abandonware of some of the greatest games of all time. Talk amongst eachother and post a link to your favorite abandonware you see!

Mine: Cursader: <a href="http://www.classic-trash.com/gameinfo.php?id=476" target="_blank">http://www.classic-trash.com/gameinfo.php?id=476</a>

BTW, you cant dl the ones with the red square, they arend abandoned yet. But the green ones, go for it!
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    <a href="http://www.cdos.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cdos.org/</a>

    All the olden goldies, Commander Keen 1-4, Captain Comic, Dune 1 and 2. You name it.

    --Scythe--
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  • MoebiusMoebius Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1045Members, Constellation
    <b><span style='color:lightblue'>Heh. No. (You'd know why I was removing this post if you'd played the game.)</span></b>



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  • Lord_FrodoLord_Frodo Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1333Members
    www.theunderdogs.org

    the best!
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Careful guys.... The line between Abandonware and warez is very very very very very very blurry. I don't want to have to lock this post.
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  • HikeebaHikeeba Join Date: 2002-10-03 Member: 1418Members
    <a href="http://www.the-underdogs.org/" target="_blank">The Underdogs</a>

    There's a hyphen in it now.

    I don't think the line between abandonware and warez is that blurry.  If you can't obtain it from the developer, publisher,  distributor, or retailer, I'd call it abandonware.
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  • JopsJops Join Date: 2002-09-13 Member: 1312Members
    The underdogs is the best abondonware website- ever- period.
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  • CollateralDamageCollateralDamage Join Date: 2002-07-15 Member: 949Members
    Yes, if only the IDSA would stop annoying them...
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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    Thanks <b>alot</b> for that link, arby.  There's some reall classics in there.  My top 3:

    O Syndicate Wars
    O Syndicate
    O One Must Fall 2097
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I have to say that the IDSAs actions in Abandonware are - to say the least - pointless.

    The most games offered on these sites will <i>never, ever</i> be officially published again; the expected profit that could be made on them therefore equals the second part of my alias.

    Making them unobtainable will therefore only drive more people into the Warez scene, without of creating any kind of advantage to level it out for the industry.
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  • CollateralDamageCollateralDamage Join Date: 2002-07-15 Member: 949Members
    Yes, like the music industry, the games industry doesn't understand what the people want. They consider their own customers their enemies, and act surprised when the sales drop.
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  • richard_of_richardlandrichard_of_richardland Join Date: 2002-05-29 Member: 687Members
    I think one difference between abadonware and warez is respect for the developer. Abandonware isn't out to harm people, take for exmaple lucas-arts games, lucas arts specified that they didn't want their games on abandonwaer sites as they release packs of all their old games; as a result they aren't on abandonware sites.
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  • Lord_FrodoLord_Frodo Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1333Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Hikeeba+Oct. 13 2002,00:22--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Hikeeba @ Oct. 13 2002,00:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href="http://www.the-underdogs.org/" target="_blank">The Underdogs</a>

    There's a hyphen in it now.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    ... but the link I posted DOES still work.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think one difference between abadonware and warez is respect for the developer. Abandonware isn't out to harm people, take for exmaple lucas-arts games, lucas arts specified that they didn't want their games on abandonwaer sites as they release packs of all their old games; as a result they aren't on abandonware sites<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    ... maybe not on the sites YOU look at ;-)
    *hints at his 1337 connections*
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  • HikeebaHikeeba Join Date: 2002-10-03 Member: 1418Members
    The hyphenless link is working again?  Wow.  I thought the site had been shut down the last time tried it.  Oh well, I stand corrected.
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