Comments on: A short interlude for blasphemy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: I heard the news today, oh boy « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-44252 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:42:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-44252 [...] life span for Windows 2000 at this point, but I’m not real sure about that either. Even some short forays into the backwaters of Windows 2000 have been rather stunting to me, and that was the operating [...]

]]> By: cthulhu http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43968 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:00:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43968 Abandonia version: 505 kb
GoG version: 378 MB

]]> By: cthulhu http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43964 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:26:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43964 Abandonia is a Legal site, with tons of full versions of all the classic games, since the copyright has expired or something like that. I know that they’re careful not to upload anything that’s in violation of copyright laws.

For instance, Pirate Gold and Civilization 1 is legal to download:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/134
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/14
But not Doom II, Civilization 2, or X-COM UFO:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/6/
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/99/
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/38
(they removed them quite fast once they realized they were still being sold in the market.)

OK, so on occasion they might have an illegal upload for a few days before the administrators notice it’s still copyrighted. I’m all against piracy, and I play OpenTtd (transport tycoon) regularly, I just don’t want anyone thinking abandonia.com is some sort of “illegal” site. :)

]]> By: James http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43961 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:11:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43961 For example, here’s The Incredible Machine on Abandona[1] and GoG[2]. One site has a contract with the owners of the property. One does not.

1. http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25/Incredible+Machine,+The.html
2. http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_incredible_machine_mega_pack

]]> By: James http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43960 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:05:54 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43960 Abandonware isn’t legal, just old. It’s all still copyrighted, and some of it is even being monetized again by online stores like Steam and Good Old Games.

Liberated Games (http://www.liberatedgames.com/ ) and open source remakes (like FreeCiv, Paradroid, OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon), and The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2), and Doom Legacy) are your best bets for non-pirated games.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43938 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:32:47 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43938 If it’s a full legal version I would be okay with that. The demo is all of 1.65Mb anyway, which takes about a second to download for me, and worked just as well for as little a time as I wanted to play it.

]]> By: cthulhu http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43930 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:30:39 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43930 But why not just download the full (legal) versions of the games (such as sc2000), from http://www.abandonia.com.
I’m currently playing Doom, transport tychoon, and a lot of other games. Never played a game larger than 100 Mb.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43926 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:12:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43926 That’s true. It’s kind of fun to put the real thing on a machine though, and see how it works. :D

]]> By: Adrian http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43923 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:52:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43923 The plus point of playing old games is that they can be almost always played in Wine! But, ymmv of course.

Adrian

]]> By: gullars http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43916 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:15:35 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-short-interlude-for-blasphemy/#comment-43916 I don’t think visiting windows is such a big thing of blasphemy, it’s like buying a high end brand of clothes and you see that it gets tired just as fast as the old ones did, and it doesn’t really look better either ;)
That being said, I love playing retro and old games, and I have to say that there is something really charming and nice about what people are able to do under the constraints that they had at the times, and now to I prefer the more low powered hand held systems, because I think the limits that they set up enable the people to concentrate more about game-play than fancy graphics and physics. And to bind it all together with the old machines, I think that is something that you do with your machines too, you can do better things, because you know what limits you are under, you are able to do great things under the limitations that you have, and that is the most important isn’t it ;)

Well time for me to get some coffee and breakfast it seems, because I’m not sure that I make sense on the reread ;)

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