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[goblins]

ok then the other option is to make that stale unsold intellectual property commercially available even if only through their own website ie similar to the apple itunes pay for download legal copies of music files for $1 a peiece for ipods

Games companies with very old titles could make say each game $1 a peice you could pay $5 payment and get 5 old titles in return with a download link specific to each buyer - it would be valid for 1 week only.

That way they would still be selling the game and could justify protecting their Intellectual property - quite a few smaller game producers actually distribute their games this way esp shareware companies when players register to get the full version they pay their $10 or so and get a link via email to download the full version game

On this specific issue what is stopping the companies from doing this.

I agree illegal warez is wrong -

But if the companies in question and there are many have stopped supporting their product and remain intent on protecting it from illegal distribtuion - perhaps those wanting to buy the game and cant shoudl email them and ask for this legal payable download option for early titles ?

[goblins]

wael what about ad 1602 on mobygames i cant find the link ?

[Wael]

1602 A.D
Still sold /-

[goblins]

gameswharehouse.com.au dont have any in stock -

chipsandbits is a USA site and i dont care to pay excessive shipping charges

[The Fifth Horseman]

Okay, seems like I actually still can contribute several dozen titles...

[Sebatianos]

Excelent!
But who'll do all the reviews (I'm a bit busy right now :whistle: ).

[The Fifth Horseman]

For some of them I can write the reviews myself, but not for all. For example, I'm not really a fan of cRPG, and just would not have the patience to play them long enough to get a review with screenshots.

This pretty much means most of the titles present on the first list.

I'm certainly not going to pass the opportunity of reviewing MechWarrior 1 to anybody else...

[The_X]

Yeah lets get all the games up for downlaod!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Cross out Street Fighter 2, seems that Abandonia already has it.

Sincce SF 2 is ABW, it would be logical to assume that SF 1 is ABW as well.

The_X, if you are so eager to see them all for download then in the meantime take a while to help the Abandonia crew by reviewing some of the games they have already got that need only reviews to be put up.
Or if you don't want to write reviews, then donate to the site for the bandwidth you will use when downloading the games. This way you will help in maintaining the site and verybody will be happy.

[Wael]

Thank you,
I´ll update the list as it goes /-