Its free release was sponsored by the US Air Force. Is a adventure game expansion pack to It Came from the Desert released as freeware by the author Cinemaware.Ī platform game by Apogee Software, re-released as freeware on March 2009.Ī first person shooter by Midway Games. The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian (1992),Īn adventure game for Atari ST and PC by Game CraftersĪ.k.a Halloween Harry, a side-scrolling platform game published by Apogee Software.Ī multiplayer space shooter / RTS by Microsoft Research.Ī strategy dos game by George Moromisato.Īntheads: It Came from the Desert 2 (1990) The fourth part in the Sam & Max episodic series by Telltale Games, released as freeware on November 5, 2007.Īdventureland (1978), an adventure game by Scott Adams. Last but not least a list of freeware/formerly commercial games (source: wikipedia)Ī puzzle game for Mac OS by Cliff Johnson it is up to the admin of this website to try and get permission - i think it should be an easy task since the site is really good and EA might like it. my guess is that EA authorized those sites but that doesnt mean everybody can offer it for download. therefore, DO must be freeware since it is available on so many sites hosted in the US or european countries. That implies that abandonware sites hosted in france (and at least two of them offer DO for download) have to ask permission before having a title for download and usually do so. in france, software is protected for 70 years after release some publishers actually declare stuff freewareĮ.g. abandonware is a blurry term and neither legal nor illegalģ. copyright expires according to law of a respective country (that means DO is still copyrighted)Ģ. I did some research and have to correct myself about some things:ġ. if you need any assistance, just send me a pm, im happy to help out.Īnyway i really like your site, great job! I'm not a lawyer myself, so you might want to double-check some of the stuff i posted, but i highly recommend you do that for your own sake. but i think it would be such an improvement to have a section that shows people how to get the game, since its hard to buy a working copy for a modern pc's drives. However, fortunately there are some people on this board who help me out, so there is no need for further discussion. a lawyer who tries to f***k you up only needs to save a copy of the site containing a link, even its just on for a few minutes, so you will never be safe until you change your imprint. its quite common, i really wonder why you take the risk running a forum without it. alternatively, you can check the imprints of other german websites. you can find sample imprints provided by several german lawyers online, just google it. however, your imprint doesn't state that, so i suggest you fix that as soon as possible. no publisher will ever declare any product freeware because its additional effort and doesnt contribute anything to their business - so if you want to wait for that, we all might die in the mean time.Īnyway, german law allows you to have links to sites who even link to illegal content (although its not the case here) as long as you provide a proper imprint stating that you are not responsible for the content of sites you link to. the DO copyright expired 2007 but i wouldnt bet my ass on it. the site i posted a link to is french and therefore EU law applies to it, don't you sometimes wonder why other sites in europe offer whole downloads of abandonware? it costs money to extend a copyright, i dont think they spend a dime on it anymore. this is business, copyright is not even the point. they will not and cannot sue anyone who obtains a copy of that game now because its simply not worth it. Not supporting it means that the costs of maintaining support are higher than expected sales would recoup, so they just dropped it. I happen to be an ex game designer dealing with EA and guess what, i did ask one of their producers (coincidentally a german guy) to supply me a copy BUT they don't support it anymore so he kindly rejected.
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