- #IS WINDOWS XP ABANDONWARE ARCHIVE#
- #IS WINDOWS XP ABANDONWARE SOFTWARE#
- #IS WINDOWS XP ABANDONWARE CODE#
The games we are describing are no longer supported by the publishers.
On our pages, we want to show you the old games we played in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
#IS WINDOWS XP ABANDONWARE ARCHIVE#
Yes, we're a lot stricter than all other abandonware sites, but also for a reason, since we foremost don't see ourselves as such. , is an abandonware games archive for Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore C64, PC (DOS / Windows), Macintosh, SEGA Genesis / MegaDrive and ZX Spectrum. Home of the Underdogs - One of the most popular abandonware sites with reviews of over 5,300 games for DOS and Windows. And we put up stuff only to be not supported and not sold anymore. Abandonia - As the title suggests, this site has a very collection of games that are under the category of abandonware or titles that are no longer sold /developed by the authors.
All kinds of personal license info is removed (but archived for reference) from the FTP, and we don't allow any tools that allows you to circumvent any kind of license protection.
#IS WINDOWS XP ABANDONWARE CODE#
There's a vast difference between having staff actively writing new code for a defunct OS and telling the server guys to just leave the server service running (for now).Īnd as marcoguy and James hinted at we're very strict with what we allow here on the FTP.
#IS WINDOWS XP ABANDONWARE SOFTWARE#
If you can download official updates from official website or using original program, that means software is still supported (at least a little bi) and it should not be considered as abandonware.īecause a download function works doesn't mean it's actively supported either, only that the developers left the server structure intact enough to make it work. Also, I think Nintendo and Microsoft have asked us to take down stuff as well over the years, but nothing widespread or "stop distributing ALL of our stuff"-level C&D.īut by our standards, which we have made clear - XP is abandonware in all forms but SP3. I believe recently, we had the current AmigaOS copyright holders sent a takedown notice over one of the leaked AmigaOS 3.1 sources that has spread around. (but that's more off-topic than anything)Īnd we know these companies have their eyes on us. By making our stuff harder to access, we're making ourselves more palatable to those companies that know about us. All those really crazy FTP requirements that everyone moans and groans about? It's probably saved our keisters more so than anything else about this forum. Old abandonware video games compatible with Windows XP/98/95 such as 101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy, 3 Skulls of the Toltecs, 3D Ultra Lionel. Andy has said that Microsoft and other corporations know we exist, and they've been content to let us be because we're very stringent about letting people access our repositories, and we're very serious about being historians and collectors, not pirates.