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This category includes computer software that is no longer maintained, like: Software that has been officially discontinued by the original developer and is not maintained by any other third party.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 ...
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 ...
Orphaned technology is a descriptive term for computer products, programs, and platforms that have been abandoned by their original developers. Orphaned technology refers to software, such as abandonware and antique software, but also to computer hardware and practices.
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 ...
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.
Unlike abandonware, orphaned technology refers to both software and hardware and the practices around them. Users of orphaned technologies must often make a choice continuing to use the technology, which may become harder to maintain over time, or switch to other supported technologies, possibly losing capabilities unique to the orphaned ...
WordStar was the first microcomputer word processor to offer mail merge and textual WYSIWYG.Besides word-wrapping (still a notable feature for early microcomputer programs), this last was most noticeably implemented as on-screen pagination during the editing session.
Retrocomputing is part of the history of computer hardware.It can be seen as the analogue of experimental archaeology in computing. [2] Some notable examples include the reconstruction of Babbage's Difference engine (more than a century after its design) and the implementation of Plankalkül in 2000 (more than half a century since its inception).