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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)
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.
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 ...
Orphaned technology refers to software, such as abandonware and antique software, but also to computer hardware and practices. Subcategories.
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Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools.Broderbund is best known for the 8-bit video game hits Choplifter, Lode Runner, Karateka, and Prince of Persia (all of which originated on the Apple II), as well as The Print Shop—originally for printing signs and banners on dot matrix printers—and the Myst ...
Software archaeology or source code archeology is the study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of software maintenance. [1] [2] Software archaeology, named by analogy with archaeology, [3] includes the reverse engineering of software modules, and the application of a variety of tools and processes for extracting and understanding program structure and ...