Posted: 4/3/2007 5:17 PM
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Post subject: Abandoneware
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sliverjazz
Joined: 10/31/2004
Posts: 62
There are alot of popular sites with old Dos games. They remove them at the request of the authors so i dont see the problem with posting them here?
Posted: 4/3/2007 5:20 PM
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zefiris
Joined: 4/11/2006
Posts: 487
Location: North of Russia :[
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html 5th part.
Posted: 7/5/2007 6:35 PM
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NekoMan
Joined: 7/5/2007
Posts: 6
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Abandonware is a controversial label, but some games are Shareware, which I don't believe falls under the same rules... or does it? I'm not very clear on that. I'm just thinking back to Doom, and how Episode 1 was available as Shareware, but you had to buy the game to play Episodes 2 and 3. Same thing with a lot of Apogee's games, I think.
Posted: 7/5/2007 9:02 PM
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Bob_A
Joined: 2/12/2006
Posts: 432
zefiris, that was a strawman. they never said anything about losing copyright.
Posted: 7/16/2007 4:21 PM
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MikeRS
Joined: 1/21/2006
Posts: 117
NekoMan wrote:
I'm just thinking back to Doom, and how Episode 1 was available as Shareware, but you had to buy the game to play Episodes 2 and 3..
Still have to buy the game to play Episodes 2 and 3 (and 4). Not that hard since the original Doom trilogy (not including Doom 3) costs only $20 these days.
Posted: 7/17/2007 9:41 AM
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Admiral_Sif
Joined: 7/26/2006
Posts: 53
Wait...There's still a link to the Doom episode 2-etc buy page that actually works?
Posted: 7/17/2007 7:21 PM
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Yes. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-final/