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I noticed this on www.abandonwareblog.com

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Yesterday I came with the news of some games not being abandonware anymore, today I read something on the 3DRealms site:

We do not retain any copyright or control on the following titles: Star Trek Trivia, Star Trek: TNG Trivia, and Jumpman Lives! (which means we don’t care what you do with these three games - we don’t have anything to do with them anymore).

Commander Keen VI: Aliens Ate My Babysitter & Spear of Destiny have also been discontinued by their distributor (these are not nor ever were actual Apogee games, we only resold them), and are no longer available.

Seems like Commander Keen VI, Spear of Destiny, Jumpman Lives! and those Trivia games can be seen as abandonware from now on since they’re not being sold anymore.

One of these days I’ll make two new pages (like the about page) where I’ll try to keep track of stuff like this. Something like an Oldwarez and Abandonware list.[/b]

Anyone shed any light on this?

Keen 6 has only just become abandonware? There are hundreds upon hundreds of fansites where you can download the full game! I used to have the ENTIRE Commander Keen collection, 1-6 and Keen Dreams, that I downloaded from various websites.

Keen 6 was abandonware for ages. Keens 1-5 are still sold.

mmkey... what about the others? the Star trek ones, Spear of destiny etc. are they really abandonware???

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Keens 1-5 are still sold.[/b]

Actually, the first Keen is shareware ;)

As is, IIRC, the fourth.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Sep 21 2006, 02:12 PM) [snapback]256444[/snapback]</div>

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mmkey... what about the others? the Star trek ones, Spear of destiny etc. are they really abandonware???
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Shame on you...

You should know your classics better! :titan:

:w00t:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Doubler @ Sep 21 2006, 03:19 PM) [snapback]256461[/snapback]</div>

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Keens 1-5 are still sold.[/b]

Actually, the first Keen is shareware ;)
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Good point. :ok: