Having the abandonware site option keeps even the more obscure titles alive. Game preservation is a vital practice, with ...

For clarity, I'm defining 'Abandonware' as any game unobtainable firsthand in shops or online. I'm not including games that have been remastered, like Powerslave Exhumed, for example.

Abandonware: Ethics and Essentials As PC gamers, we tend to be as much about the good games of old as the up and coming new releases. We know that, while Crysis is all very pretty and fun, there ...

Abandonware games are the classics we played as a child -- which are still available for download, many for free! Here are our favorites and where to find them.

Abandonware games only exist, in an official capacity, on their original installation discs, most of which are moldering away in forgotten discount bins, or the recesses of gamer basements.

There’s a thriving Abandonware scene on PC, led by a handful of sites dedicated to abandoned games and the much larger Internet Archive, which also makes itself home to backed-up archives of ...

Abandonware now legal? Changes in copyright rules let gamers break copy protection on old games--in some circumstances. By Emma Boyes on November 27, 2006 at 11:25AM PST. 59 Comments.

That's not to say that 17.04 is abandonware. And it will live on in the Universe repos for anyone who'd like to continue using it. So if you're fond of the Unity interface, ...

Abandonware refers to software that is ignored by its owner and no longer has any kind of product support. It’s a complex topic, but the Wiki on it is actually pretty good.

According to a new report from fraud protection firm Pixalate, Apple and Google delisted 592,000 apps from the App Store and Google Play, respectively, in Q2 2022. That's a major increase from the ...