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Strangler
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 03:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


..... since the site sopposevly contains abandoneware I cant link to it.



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LXS
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 03:45 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm giving away free reverse bowling ball enemas. They're less painful than daikatana. Who wants one?
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Pext
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 03:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


me... but only if you wear your pink bowling suit while penetrating me :icon14:
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LXS
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 03:49 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Where'd you go last night on WOW, fool?
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 03:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


is it okay to link to that site now we're back here?

can't even be arsed to type daisadksd let alone play it.
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Eraser
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 04:15 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


That site supplies warez and calls it "abandonware". It's been explained numerous times both on Q3W and other sites that there is no such thing as abandonware.
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SplishSplash
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 04:50 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


If the publisher says it's abandonware, it is abandonware. So there is a thing as abandonware.
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MKJ
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 04:52 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


its not some sites place to call stuff abandonware though
there hardly are any abandonware titles, anyways. gta is one :)
although i remember summat about daikatana a while back.. *searches*

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right. its not "abandonware". its still for sale according to Romero. you can, however, download the pre-alpha at http://www.rome.ro

so there



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Pext
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 04:54 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


LXS wrote:
Where'd you go last night on WOW, fool?


a friend called and we played some warcraft 3 mod, bashing the shit out of some newbs. and then the german servers went back up -
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LXS
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 04:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Pext wrote:
LXS wrote:
Where'd you go last night on WOW, fool?


a friend called and we played some warcraft 3 mod, bashing the shit out of some newbs. and then the german servers went back up -


Yeah, got booted off last night from the server i was on a couple of times...
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blood.angel
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 04:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Daikatana, the unreleased GBA game is abandonware.
Prob not the PC game.
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glossy
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 05:01 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


MKJ wrote:
its not some sites place to call stuff abandonware though
there hardly are any abandonware titles, anyways. gta is one :)


actually, the Rockstar Classics aren't abandonware at all, they're giving it away specifically to people who register at the official classics site -- you register to obtain a licence to download the program, and not distribute it.

kinda stupid, especially when you still can't download GTA2 even after trying several times over the course of a week due to overloaded servers before resorting to warez >_>
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 05:11 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


SplishSplash wrote:
If the publisher says it's abandonware, it is abandonware. So there is a thing as abandonware.


No, abandonware does not exist in the way people think it does. Games never lose their proprietary status. You can never use content from a game no matter if it's still available or not.

Even if a developer or publisher offers a game for download for free, the term "abandonware" is still not apt. The game is not "abandoned" by the developer, it's just offered for free under a new license. You are still bound to that license.

The same is true for GTA. The fact that you can download the game under a new license makes the difference between the game being free or not. It doesn't make it "abandonware" in the way people believe it's existing outside the boundaries of copyright and licensinglaws.

Unless the publisher (or developer, whoever is the proprietary owner) releases the game under a new license agreement it's always illegal to download a game.

A game is never automatically "abandoned". The fact that it's not available through retail sources anymore does not make a game "abandoned" either.
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 07:33 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


nobody wants to plays this. heck, if they pay me for it I wont play it even



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