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Preserving Abandoned Treasures
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Preserving Abandoned Treasures |
11/30/08
Likewise, piracy game sites often act as though they care about preserving old games, yet all they care about is getting away stealing other people's games. There is never an attempt to document related materials, packaging, history, or advertising, and many sites actually cripple the game download by stripping it of its movie and other files just to save money on their own bandwidth. Being in the business of profiting off other people's efforts is not something I'd been willing to condone, ethically or in any shape and way of helping the industry.
11/30/08
11/30/08
No mention of HOTU?!?!
Sure, they may have not been updated in years now due to the site admin taking a long long long leave of absence (she might never be coming back), but its still the first and best preservation of abandonware out there. Even going so far as to contacting authors of games looking for permission to host them.
Sigh... to be living in 1998 again.
11/30/08
Oh yeah, huge Abandonware buff here, this Kayce guy. Seriously. I had a crap 233 mhz until like 2003 (yeah yeah, yuk it up) on Windows 95 and so was pretty fluxed in DOS prompt.
Sites like the Underdogs were the only thing I had to experience games with.
11/30/08
11/30/08
Wow, don't know how I missed that. I see it now.