great abandonware for your classic PC

On 3/16/2010 9:20 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Undeniably. Abandonware is one of the most horrible terms I had the unfortunate history of helping coin. I was part of the original movement and lobbied very heavily to call "software no longer made available in any form by the publisher" by the term "oldwarez". Unfortunately I lost, and the horrid term "abandonware" was chosen. I'm not going to get into a discussion about pirating software with those who do it for a living. We pirate software every time we get our old computers running (ie. you didn't really pay for that 30-yr-old operating system, did you?) so such a discussion would be hypocritical. But I *will* say that some of us in the old-game-pirating movement knew full well what we were doing. It's unfortunate that the morons who were trying to kid themselves that what they were doing was somehow moral outnumbered us when it came time to pick a name. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/