Search the archive:
 YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
  Simviation Forum › Computer Hardware & Software Forum › Computer Games & Software › Old games......for FREE!
(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
Old games......for FREE! (Read 409 times)
May 26th, 2004 at 8:10am
Exploder   Ex Member

 
For those of us who like old games,I can really recommend this site:
http://www.abandonware-france.org/

The site is in French,but you should find your way through. They've got things like "Pirates", "Sim City 2000", Some parts of the Ultima series, MADTV, etc...
But keep away from the adventures,they are almost entirely in French.

Some hints:
Jeux = Games
Télécharger = Download

Enjoooooy.

eXpLoDeR  8)
 
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - May 26th, 2004 at 10:12am

Iroquois   Offline
Colonel
Happy Halloween
Ontario Canada

Gender: male
 Posts: 3244
 *****
 
Interesting. Is this legal though? I know some of the games on there are still for sale. I know Sonic & Knuckles is in a new compelation pack for Game Cube for example.
 
I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink&&The Rig: &&AMD Athlon XP2000+ Palomino, ECS K7S5A 3.1, 1GB PC2700 DDR, Geforce FX5200 128mb, SB Live Platinum, 16xDVD, 16x10x40x CDRW, 40/60gb 7200rpm HDD, 325w Power, Windows XP Home SP1, Directx 9.0c with 66.81 Beta gfx drivers
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - May 26th, 2004 at 11:04am

Craig.   Offline
Colonel
Birmingham

Gender: male
 Posts: 18590
 *****
 
as long as companies have stopped selling it on the specific platform then its legal. Since its gamecube then there shouldnt be a problem
 
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #3 - May 26th, 2004 at 12:43pm

SilverFox441   Offline
Colonel
Now What?
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Gender: male
 Posts: 1467
 *****
 
Actually, it's not legal...but it is tolerated.

Very few companies will be bothered to do anything to protest their rights concerning a game that they no longer have any commercial interest in.

I'm normally very much against "pirateware", but will admit I've D/l'd a couple of really old games from places like this...games like Mech Brigade (which I used to play on a C64 and Action Stations (which I used to play on an A500). Neither game has been adequately replaced for the PC and I play them very infrequently.
 
Steve (Silver Fox) Daly
&&
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #4 - May 27th, 2004 at 5:22am

Omag 2.0   Offline
Colonel
No badger comes close!
Somewhere, Belgium

Gender: male
 Posts: 11985
 *****
 
COOOOOL - Duke Nukem time, where are those machineguns....
 
&&...&&&&Check my aviation-photo's at www.airliners.be&&&&Or go straight to Omag's Album
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #5 - May 27th, 2004 at 1:08pm

Meyekul   Offline
Colonel
Kentucky

Gender: male
 Posts: 210
 *****
 
Great find!  If you like to read the descriptions and stuff, you might find Google's Language Tools useful.
 
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #6 - May 28th, 2004 at 5:53am
Exploder   Ex Member

 
"Nuclear war" is one of my favourites,as well as "Simon II" and "Commander Keen IV". Smiley
 
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #7 - May 28th, 2004 at 9:20am

Meyekul   Offline
Colonel
Kentucky

Gender: male
 Posts: 210
 *****
 
Here's an english Abandonware site, a really good one too: http://www.the-underdogs.org/index.php.
 
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
  « Home ‹ Board Top of this page

Simviation Forum » Powered by YaBB 2.5 AE!
YaBB Forum Software © 2000-2010. All Rights Reserved.

Valid RSS Valid XHTML Valid CSS Powered by Perl Source Forge