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Tue 25/12/01 at 21:05
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remember a classic game that you no longer have....want it back?

Well i was searching the net a few months ago and found a load of "abandonware" games. These are games which have ben out of production for more than 3 or 5 years and can therefore be download. This provides loads of old classic games which you can no longer buy and i am reliably informed that downloading them is legal although posting them is currently legal but being reviewed.

Either search for them under abandonware on a search engine or the best one i found was www.theunderdogs.org/ which is definitely worth a look. They have thousands of classic games in alphabetical order and classic games which you thought lost can be recovered.
Mon 01/04/02 at 19:54
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Ive been collecting abandonware for years now but more and more come on all the time i downloaded DOOM 2 just a few weeks ago.

Now that was a classic game especially running it on the DOOM 95 mod which gives you better graphics and a windows based GUI (Just slightly mind you)

That sites a good one, good find :-)
Fri 29/03/02 at 17:57
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downloaded some more quality old games
Thu 03/01/02 at 11:56
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I tink so just go and have a look its pretty easy to find things there
Tue 01/01/02 at 20:36
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"I won the turnips!!"
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Has it got Paperboy?
Wed 26/12/01 at 19:43
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no its games which have not been on general release for a while and some dodgy copyright law kicks in to allow nonprofit making use.
Wed 26/12/01 at 15:14
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i thought abandonware meant the game could never be completed....
Tue 25/12/01 at 21:05
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Posts: 6,801
remember a classic game that you no longer have....want it back?

Well i was searching the net a few months ago and found a load of "abandonware" games. These are games which have ben out of production for more than 3 or 5 years and can therefore be download. This provides loads of old classic games which you can no longer buy and i am reliably informed that downloading them is legal although posting them is currently legal but being reviewed.

Either search for them under abandonware on a search engine or the best one i found was www.theunderdogs.org/ which is definitely worth a look. They have thousands of classic games in alphabetical order and classic games which you thought lost can be recovered.

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