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Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, which can no longer be found for sale, and for which no official support is available and cannot be bought. [1] Within an intellectual rights contextual background, abandonware is a software (or hardware) sub-case of the general concept of orphan works. Museums ...
Software that has been officially discontinued by the original developer and is not maintained by any other third party. The company that used to maintain it went bankrupt or ceased to exist for a variety of reasons, and no other company is going to maintain it (even if it was not officially discontinued)
Abandonia is an abandonware website, focusing mainly on showcasing video games and distributing games made for the MS-DOS system.. Abandonia also features a music section and an Abandonware List, [1] a continuously expanded database of over 4600 games including information about their publishers, release dates and whether according to the staff's knowledge the software is sold, protected or ...
Timeslaughter Lost, a prototype version of Timeslaughter, was also released in 2005 as freeware after a fan realized the version he had was different from the retail release and sent it to Bloodlust Software. Total Extreme Wrestling 2005: 2005 2009 Booking simulator: Windows Greydog Software Traffic Department 2192: 1994 2007 [96] Top-down ...
Home of the Underdogs (often called HotU) is an abandonware archive [2] founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul, [3] in October 1998.. Before shutting down the original version in 2009, the site provided reviews for over 5,300 games and offered downloads of software and manuals for a number of games that were no longer commercially available.
Examples of orphan works include photographs that do not note the photographer, such as photos from scientific expeditions and historical images, old folk music recordings, little known novels and other literature. [1] Software which becomes an orphaned work is usually known as abandonware.
Orphaned technology refers to software, such as abandonware and antique software, but also to computer hardware and practices. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Video game preservation is a form of preservation applied to the video game industry that includes, but is not limited to, digital preservation.Such preservation efforts include archiving development source code and art assets, digital copies of video games, emulation of video game hardware, maintenance and preservation of specialized video game hardware such as arcade games and video game ...