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Abandonware abandonware is a 
product typically software 

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ignored by its owner, and 
manufacturer. 

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And for which, no official 
support is available within an 

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intellectual rights. 
Contextual background abandon 

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wears a software or Hardware sub
case of the general concept of 

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Orphan Works museums, and 
various organizations dedicated 

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to preserving this software, 
continue to provide legal 

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access. 
The term abandonware is Broad 

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and encompasses many types of 
old software. 

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Definitions of abandoned vary. 
But in general, it is like any 

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item that is abandoned. 
It is ignored by the owner and 

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as such product support, and 
possibly copyright enforcement 

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are also abandoned types 
commercial software unsupported,

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but still owned by a viable 
company. 

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The availability of the software
depends on the company's 

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attitude, toward the software, 
in many cases the company, which

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owns the software rights, may 
not be that, which originated it

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or may not recognize their 
ownership some companies. 

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Such as Borland, make some 
software available online in a 

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form of free where others such 
as Microsoft do not make old 

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versions available for free. 
Use and do not permit people to 

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copy the software commercial 
software owned by a company. 

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No longer in business, when 
know, owning entity of the 

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software exists, all activities,
support distribution. 

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IP activities Etc. 
In relation to the software have

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ceased. 
If the rights to a software are 

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non recoverable and legal limbo,
Often work the software's rights

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cannot be bought by another 
company. 

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And there is no company to 
enforce the copyright. 

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An example of this is digital 
research's original pli compiler

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for dos, which was considered 
for many years as without an 

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owner Micro Focus which acquired
Novell which had bought digital 

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research's assets. 
Owns this old pli compiler but 

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has a more up-to-date pli 
offering shareware, whose author

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still makes it available finding
historical versions. 

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However, can be difficult since 
Most shareware archives remove 

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past versions with the release 
of new versions. 

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Authors may, or may not make 
older releases available some 

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websites, collect, an offer for 
downloadable versions of 

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shareware freeware. 
And in some cases commercial 

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applications in some cases, 
these sites had to remove past 

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versions of software. 
Particularly if the company 

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producing that software, still 
maintains it. 

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Or if later software releases 
introduced digital Rights 

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Management whereby old versions 
could be viewed as Um, 

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circumvention unsupported or 
unmaintained shareware open 

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source and freeware programs 
that have been abandoned in some

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cases source code remains 
available which can prove a 

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historical artifact. 
One such case is PC lisp still 

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found online which implements 
the Franz Liszt dialect. 

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The dust based PC list still 
runs well with an emulator. 

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Zand on Microsoft windows. 
Orphan code the source code or 

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executable might still be 
available, but the Is unknown 

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only identified by a dead email 
or equivalent and there is no 

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realistic. 
Prospect of finding the owner of

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the IP implications. 
If a software product reaches, 

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and of life, and becomes 
abandoned, where users are 

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confronted with several 
potential problems, missing 

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purchase availability, besides 
use software and missing 

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technical support. 
For example, compatibility fixes

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for newer hardware and operating
systems these problems are 

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exacerbated. 
If software is bound a physical 

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media with a limited lifetime, 
Life, expectancy floppy, disks 

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Optical media, Etc and backups 
are impossible because of copy 

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protection or copyright law. 
If a software is distributed 

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only in a digital DRM locked 
former SAS the shutdown of the 

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servers will lead to a public 
loss of the software. 

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If the software product is 
without alternative the missing 

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replacement, availability 
becomes a challenge for 

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continued software usage. 
Once a software product becomes 

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abandoned, where there is a high
risk that the source code 

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becomes lost Recoverable even 
for its original developers. 

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As multiple cases have shown, 
one of many examples is the 

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closure of Atari in Sunnyvale 
California in 1996. 

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When the original Source codes 
of several Milestones of video 

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game history such as asteroids 
and centipede, were thrown out 

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his trash. 
Some of which were later 

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recovered unavailability of 
software in the associated 

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source. 
Code can also be a hindrance for

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software archaeology and 
research response to abandon 

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where early abandoned We're 
websites in response to the 

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missing availability of 
abandoned where people have 

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distributed old software since 
shortly. 

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After the beginning of personal 
Computing, with the activity 

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remained low key, until the 
Advent of the internet, while 

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treating old games has taken 
many names and forms. 

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The term abandonware was coined 
by Peter ring Goering, and late 

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1996 ring. 
During found classic game 

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website similar to his own 
contacted, their webmasters and 

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formed the original abandonware 
ring in February 1997. 

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This original webring was little
more than a collection of sites 

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linking to Adventure classes. 
Gaming.com another was a site 

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indexing them all to provide a 
rudimentary search facility in 

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October 1997, the interactive 
digital software Association, 

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sent cease and desist letters to
all Sites. 

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Within the abandonware ring, 
which led to most shutting down 

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an unintended consequence was 
that it's bird others to create 

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new abandonware, sites, and 
organizations that came to 

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outnumber the original ring 
members sites. 

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Formed after the demise of the 
original abandonware ring 

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include a bandana funny 
abandonware and home of the 

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underdogs in later years 
abandonware websites, actively 

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Acquired and received 
permissions from developers and 

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copyright holders, for example, 
Jeff Minter magnetic fields or 

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Gremlin interactive for legal, 
redistribution of abandoned 

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Works. 
An example is world of spectrum 

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who acquired the permission from
many developers and successfully

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retracted. 
A dmca case archives, several 

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websites. 
Abandonware for download 

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including old versions of 
applications which are difficult

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to find by any other means much 
of this software fits the 

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definition of software that is 
no longer current but is still 

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of Interest with the line 
separating the use and 

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distribution of abandonware from
copyright, infringement is 

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blurry and the term abandonware 
could be used to distribute 

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software without proper 
notification of the owner. 

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The internet archive has created
an archive of what it describes 

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as vintage software as a way to 
preserve them. 

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The eject advocated for an 
exemption from the United 

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States, Digital Millennium 
Copyright Act to permit them to 

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bypass copy protection, which 
was approved in 2003 for a 

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period of three years. 
The exemption was renewed in 

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2006. 
And as of October, 27 2009 has 

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been indefinitely extended 
pending further rulemakings, the

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archive does not offer this 
software for download as the 

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exemption is solely for the 
purpose of preservation, or 

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archival reproduction of 
published digital works by a 

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library or Nevertheless in 2013,
the internet archive began to 

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provide antique games as 
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Playable. 
Emulation VMS, for instance, the

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Atari 2600 game e.t. the 
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Since December 23 2014, the 
internet archive presents via 

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browser based. 
Dos box emulation, thousands of 

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archived us PC games for 
scholarship and research 

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purposes. 
Only starting around 2006 the 

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Library of Congress began the 
long time preservation of video 

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games. 
The game can enlist in 

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September, 2012, The Collection 
had nearly 3,000 games from many

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platforms and also around 1500 
strategy guides. 

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For instance, the source code of
the unreleased PlayStation 

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Portable game, Duke Nukem, 
critical mass was discovered in 

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August 2014, to be preserved at 
the Library of Congress. 

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Since around 2000 90 
International Center for the 

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history of electronic games, 
each egg has taken a five 

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pronged approach to video game 
preservation original software. 

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Hardware marketing materials and
Publications production records 

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play Capture. 
And finally, the source code in 

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December 2013. 
The, a cheque received a 

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donation of several SSI video 
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For instance, computer Bismarck,
including the source code for 

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preservation, in 2014, a 
collection of broderbund games, 

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and a virtually complete Atari 
arcade machine source, code and 

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asset collection was added in 
2010. 

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Computer History Museum began 
with the preservation of source 

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code of important software. 
Beginning with Apple's Mac paint

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1.3 in 2012, the APL programming
language followed Adobe Systems 

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Incorporated. 
Donated the Photoshop. 1.0.1 

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source, code to the collection 
in February 2013. 

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The source code, is made 
available to the public, under a

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known, non-commercial license on
March 25th, 2014, Microsoft 

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followed, with the donation of 
MS-DOS variants, as well as word

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for Windows 1.1, a under their 
own license on October 21st. 14,

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Xerox, Alto source, code and 
other resources. 

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Followed in 2012, a group of 
European museums and 

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organization started the 
European Federation of game 

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archives museums and 
preservation projects F Camp to 

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join forces to preserve gaming 
Legacy also in Japan video, game

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software, archival happens for 
several years. 

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In 2012, the MoMA started with 
archiving video games and 

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explicitly, try to get the 
source code of them. 

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There are also some cases in 
which the source code again. 

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Ames was given to a fan 
Community for long time. 

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Preservation, for example, 
several titles of the wing 

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Commander video, game series our
Altima, 9 of the Ultima series 

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Community Support in response to
the missing software support. 

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Sometimes the software's user 
Community begins to provide 

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support bug fixes compatibility 
adaptations, Etc. 

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Even without available source 
code, internal software, 

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documentation, and original 
developer tools methods are 

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debugging reverse engineering a 
file. 

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And data formats and hacking, 
the binary executables often the

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results are distributed. 
As unofficial patches notable 

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examples are Fallout to vampire,
the Masquerade bloodlines or 

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even Windows 98. 
Windows XP would also get 

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Community Support via unofficial
service packs with post read 

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eregistry hack, as well as 
Windows 2000. 

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Receiving a fan-made extended 
Colonel for instance in 2012. 

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When the multiplayer game 
Supreme Commander forged 

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Alliance became Ported 
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Where is the official 
multiplayer server? 

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And support was shut down the 
game. 

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Community itself, took over with
a self-developed multiplayer 

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server and client re-releases by
digital distribution, with a new

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possibility of digital 
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Arising in mid-2000 the 
commercial distribution for many

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old titles became feasible again
as deployment and storage costs,

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drop significantly, a digital 
distributor specialized in 

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bringing old games, out of 
abandonware is gog.com formerly 

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called good old Names who 
started in 2008 to search for 

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copyright holders of classic 
games to release them legally 

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and drm-free. 
Again, for instance on December 

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9 2013, the real-time strategy 
video game Conquest Frontier 

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Wars, was, after 10 years of 
non-availability re-released by 

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gog.com also including the 
source code Arguments for, and 

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against distribution from 
proponents proponents of 

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abandonware preservation argue 
that it is more ethical to make 

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copies of such software. 
The new software that still 

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sells those ignorant of 
copyright live in correctly, 

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taken this amine that 
abandonware is legal to 

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distribute, although no software
written since 1964 is old enough

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for copyright, to have expired 
in the u.s. even in cases, where

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the original company, no longer 
exists, the rights usually 

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belong to someone else though. 
No one may be able to trace 

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actual ownership including the 
owners themselves abandonware, 

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Advocates also frequently cite 
historical preservation, as a 

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reason for trading. 
Being abandoned software older 

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computer media are fragile and 
prone to Rapid deterioration 

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necessitating transfer of these 
materials to more modern stable.

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Media and generation of many 
copies to ensure the software 

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will not simply disappear. 
Users of still functional older.

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Computer systems argue for the 
need of abandonware because 

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re-release of software by 
copyright holders will most 

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likely Target modern systems or 
incompatible media. 

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Instead preventing legal 
purchase of compatible software.