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[The Fifth Horseman]

If you mean the "Space Quest Collection", it was an officially released "port" to Windows. (Actually not a port at all, just using a chopped down version of DOSBox to get the DOS game to run under Windows.)
If you found a place that has it for sale, I think everyone would appreciate the info (especially since we have to track any legitimate sources for the non-downloadable games on Abandonia).

[dosraider]

The space quest collection can be bought online@
terragame.com
621Mb, 19.99$
Demo available.

.... Space Quest Collection includes six adventure games that are sequels ....

[karooble]

Would it be illegal for Abandonia to earn revenue by selling custom CDs, pre-burned, of abandoned games selected by users? For example, charge a fixed price, say $15, for a 650mb disc; leave it up to the user to choose how they want to allocate that 650mb, and then burn & mail it. This may be a good choice for people who are still stuck on slow connections, but I'm not sure how legal it is -- if the companies that made the game don't exist anymore, it seems like it should be okay.

With increasing bandwidth speeds and lower costs of hosting, this may be unnecessary, but it might be nice if the owners of Abandonia could be rewarded for the great things they've done.

[_r.u.s.s.]

i'd say it's unethical

[Kugerfang]

I'd say it's stupid.

Since there are already downloads.

[_r.u.s.s.]

well the point would probably be to get some games without any hassle and get some ka-ching for the abandonia, but getting money for the game that are not sold is somehow unethical in my opinion. and legaly even more offending than abandonware itself. we already have this "free-game-downloads.com" or whatever the link was, which we everybody hate, which steals material from other free sites, including games screenshots and reviews and sells the games in order to "pay for bandwidth". it's just filthy, shame on him

[Dave]

Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s.

We already have this "free-game-downloads.com" or whatever the link was, which we everybody hate, which steals material from other free sites, including games screenshots and reviews and sells the games in order to "pay for bandwidth". it's just filthy, shame on him

Oh yes, you meant our favourite leecher...who can forget him :notrust:

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by karooble

Would it be illegal for Abandonia to earn revenue by selling custom CDs, pre-burned, of abandoned games selected by users? For example, charge a fixed price, say $15, for a 650mb disc; leave it up to the user to choose how they want to allocate that 650mb, and then burn & mail it. This may be a good choice for people who are still stuck on slow connections, but I'm not sure how legal it is -- if the companies that made the game don't exist anymore, it seems like it should be okay.

This would not only be unethical but also bound to get us in serious trouble with any copyright owners still in operation. Big no-no.

[Titan]

To offer any game in exchange for a fee require you to own the right to distribute the game.
We have NO rights what so ever to distribute any game at all...
Basicly we are doing non-profit piracy as it is.. The difference is that we do it w/o causing the copyrightowners any financial loss, by only providing games not sold by any retailer while releaving the game-companies of having to host the games and give techsupport for it.

How do you know we don't make money from this?
For starters, you are never required to pay for anything on the site, nor do we have any major ads that take up 30% of the screen.

[Kugerfang]

The Titan is back!

EDIT: 200th post!