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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.
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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> That sites a good one, good find :-)
yeah its quality
> That sites a good one, good find :-)
yeah its quality
Is this Abandonware thing a new concept and is it legal?
MikeAll wrote:
> Is this Abandonware thing a new concept and is it legal?
Well, its been around 5 years at least, so not exactly new.
And no its not legal. Even if a company no longer publishes a piece of software it still owns the copyright to it meaning nobody else is allowed to distribute it unless the company itself chooses to allow it. Copyrights last 75 years too, so doesn't matter how long they've been unpublished yet, we're a long way from any expiring. :)
-G
> Is this Abandonware thing a new concept and is it legal?
Well, its been around 5 years at least, so not exactly new.
And no its not legal. Even if a company no longer publishes a piece of software it still owns the copyright to it meaning nobody else is allowed to distribute it unless the company itself chooses to allow it. Copyrights last 75 years too, so doesn't matter how long they've been unpublished yet, we're a long way from any expiring. :)
-G
Emulators of old systems like the SNES are good to download too.
Software copyright doesn't last as long as ordinary copyright. Although in 1991 is was classed as 'literary' work, and got a 70-odd year protection, it has since been updated. Currently (as of 2000 onwards), it is protected for ten years.
Oh, the 24-hour 'trial' law is an Urban legend too, in case anyone was wondering.
Oh, the 24-hour 'trial' law is an Urban legend too, in case anyone was wondering.
whoever it was looking for a good site in the other section i sad i'd chuck the thread to the top.
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