DOS Games Discussion

I am one the priate side (i am one). If they don't make the freaking game what wrong with cracking it. If they still sold it i would go out there and buy it in a flash, but they don't. The companythat made the game should be happy that even when they don't market the game anymore people are still going crazy for it!

I am one the priate side (i am one).

oooh... you better not have said that....... uh oh.....

Hide from dogbreath if I were you....

Oh yeah, you should run fast. Dogbreath squishes those priates post-haste!

Abandonware... what's not piracy?

Well, it's pretty simple for me. A) Will the ware run on a DOS-only PC? does the ware build date predate a version of Windows that's still supported?

Any yes here means it ain't piratin'... or even a good raid of anyone's pocket. BUT if you really liked the ware and you use it alot, you should at least send the programer a kudo and a good sub 2-4-1 coupon.

486 player wrote:If a developer/copyright owner doesn't get any money, a game should be published as freeware. Epic doesn't support or sell their classic titles.

How many times do I have to tell you guys? EPIC *does* still sell their classic titles. :Angry: http://www.epicclassics.com/

Most (all) of their websites for the various old games dating back to zzt are still up and running and you can still download (and probably get tech support) for their games there as well.

Incripted wrote:I am one the priate side (i am one).

Yarrrrrrr!!!! You'll walk the plank for this, matey!

johpower wrote:BUT if you really liked the ware and you use it alot, you should at least send the programer a kudo and a good sub 2-4-1 coupon.

Have you ever really done that before? That'd be hilarious to send it to Microsoft or something!

Epic games wrote:www.epicclassics.com is not affiliated with Epic Games Inc. They are selling some of our older titles by mail order only.

Yeah! They've abonded 'em complitely, not even shareware versions aren't downloadable. I knew that before joinin' there. Epic Glassics is the legallest way to get 'em.

Abandonware Ring has a list of games which downloadin's illegal, but you mods don't lemmie to post a link :Angry:

*sings a tune* <center>PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM, PM</center>

<center><font size="24"><b>PM</b></font></center>

*stops singing a tune*

Wow.....that.....that touched my heart.....*sheds a tear*

*bows* Thank you, thank you.

Still, none of you listen to me. Epic games Wrote clearly, that they're NOT assosiated with Epic classics...

well i kew that you were right, all along, TD.

Thunderdog wrote:Still, none of you listen to me. Epic games Wrote clearly, that they're NOT assosiated with Epic classics...

I wasn't disagreeing, I was humming a PM song. DUH!

All you needed to do, is put a U after the P in PM, and you'd be singing a cruzan Taboo word

and if you put an "i" after the p and a "p" after the m, you would have what someone's dad is...

i'm all for abandonware, makes sense and I hope it just doesn't encircle dos games but all sorts of games and programs.

ne one knows the difference between shareware and freeware? they're the same right?

and warez... no no no, cracked games suck...
one time my m8 passed me tomb raider2 and i thought cool he made his own copy, then i played it till the end and i thought weird shouldn't there be cutscenes, then again it was my first TR games i've played.
So i'm about to complete it and after days of playing I was looking forward to the ending...

kill the last guy and NADA, nothing I was totally dumb founded I will never play a warez game again!!!

Basically, shareware is used to be a demo to advertise the rest of a series, suck as CK4, while Freeware is does not advertise.

um, freeware companies do advertise....

What JTA means is Shareware is like demo of a game, whereas freeware is a full version game already, that's just free.

A huge database of freeware games can be found at http://www.gamehippo.com

I'M A REVIEWER!