Abandonware & Warez: Read this and then tell me your opi

Incripted · Post by **Incripted** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 12:32 pm

I am one the priate side (i am one). If they don't make the freaking game what wrong with cracking it. If they still sold it i would go out there and buy it in a flash, but they don't. The companythat made the game should be happy that even when they don't market the game anymore people are still going crazy for it!

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:45 pm

I am one the priate side (i am one).

oooh... you better not have said that....... uh oh.....

Hide from dogbreath if I were you....

nastypoisonspikes · Post by **nastypoisonspikes** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:43 pm

Oh yeah, you should run fast. Dogbreath squishes those priates post-haste!

johpower · Post by **johpower** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:58 pm

Abandonware... what's not piracy?

Well, it's pretty simple for me. A) Will the ware run on a DOS-only PC?

does the ware build date predate a version of Windows that's still supported?

Any yes here means it ain't piratin'... or even a good raid of anyone's pocket. BUT if you really liked the ware and you use it alot, you should at least send the programer a kudo and a good sub 2-4-1 coupon.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:43 am

486 player wrote:If a developer/copyright owner doesn't get any money, a game should be published as freeware. Epic doesn't support or sell their classic titles.

How many times do I have to tell you guys? EPIC *does* still sell their classic titles. :Angry: http://www.epicclassics.com/

Most (all) of their websites for the various old games dating back to zzt are still up and running and you can still download (and probably get tech support) for their games there as well.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:47 am

Incripted wrote:I am one the priate side (i am one).

Yarrrrrrr!!!! You'll walk the plank for this, matey!

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 1:04 pm

johpower wrote:BUT if you really liked the ware and you use it alot, you should at least send the programer a kudo and a good sub 2-4-1 coupon.

Have you ever really done that before? That'd be hilarious to send it to Microsoft or something!

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 2:18 pm

Epic games wrote:www.epicclassics.com is not affiliated with Epic Games Inc. They are selling some of our older titles by mail order only.

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 6:23 am

Yeah! They've abonded 'em complitely, not even shareware versions aren't downloadable. I knew that before joinin' there. Epic Glassics is the legallest way to get 'em.

Abandonware Ring has a list of games which downloadin's illegal, but you mods don't lemmie to post a link :Angry:

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 11:17 am

*sings a tune* <center>PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM</center>

<center><font size="24"><b>PM</b></font></center>

*stops singing a tune*

nastypoisonspikes · Post by **nastypoisonspikes** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 11:33 pm

Wow.....that.....that touched my heart.....*sheds a tear*

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 11:39 pm

*bows* Thank you, thank you.

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 9:36 am

Still, none of you listen to me. Epic games Wrote clearly, that they're NOT assosiated with Epic classics...

Oz · Post by Oz » Fri Jan 24, 2003 9:43 am

well i kew that you were right, all along, TD.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 10:48 am

Thunderdog wrote:Still, none of you listen to me. Epic games Wrote clearly, that they're NOT assosiated with Epic classics...

I wasn't disagreeing, I was humming a PM song. DUH!

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:13 am

All you needed to do, is put a U after the P in PM, and you'd be singing a cruzan Taboo word

Oz · Post by Oz » Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:00 pm

and if you put an "i" after the p and a "p" after the m, you would have what someone's dad is...

Octocon888 · Post by **Octocon888** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 11:46 am

i'm all for abandonware, makes sense and I hope it just doesn't encircle dos games but all sorts of games and programs.

ne one knows the difference between shareware and freeware? they're the same right?

and warez... no no no, cracked games suck...
one time my m8 passed me tomb raider2 and i thought cool he made his own copy, then i played it till the end and i thought weird shouldn't there be cutscenes, then again it was my first TR games i've played.
So i'm about to complete it and after days of playing I was looking forward to the ending...

kill the last guy and NADA, nothing I was totally dumb founded I will never play a warez game again!!!

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 2:46 pm

Basically, shareware is used to be a demo to advertise the rest of a series, suck as CK4, while Freeware is does not advertise.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 8:43 pm

um, freeware companies do advertise....

What JTA means is Shareware is like demo of a game, whereas freeware is a full version game already, that's just free.

A huge database of freeware games can be found at http://www.gamehippo.com

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