• Pxtl
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    1 year ago

    Do they have licenses for any of this stuff? I mean, Id/Bethesda still sells Doom 1, you can’t really call these “abandonware” by the normal definition. They’re just “really old”.

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      Doom is just the shareware version, just like most of the others (some already called with that fancy modern name “demo”). Some are freeware, some have been released into public domain after they went out of sale.

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      1 year ago

      Is it the full game or the shareware? In another post a few days ago they said it they were only offering shareware versions. Can’t check now, I’m on mobile.

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    Inb4 ESA shuts this down unfortunately

    Just looking at page 1 there’s a fuckton of programs that are still officially sold on steam and GOG

    And these “LOOK AT THIS OVER HERE” articles like this are just provoking these copyright holders to act

    Edit: some of these appear to be demos and the freeware versions. I wonder if we can “insert” our own “legally obtained” files?

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      1 year ago

      C&C worked for me. Great stuff, really, but with things like Krunker it’s not too surprising.

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          Of the current 16 games, 11 are shareware/demos. Only Beneath a Steel Sky, One Must Fall 2097, The Black Cauldron, The Lost Vikins and Supaplex are full versions (as those games have been released to public domain at one point).

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      It wants a code for level selection. You get the code for level 2 once you finish level 1, and so on. So just start with level 1 (F1).