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@vetgaming @linuxmint It's just a necessity, according to @fuchsiii, as it's just not feasible longterm to collect rarer-and-rarer #VintageComputing hardware and rely on non-enforcement of copyright on #Abandonware.

  • Plus whilst #Valve isn't antragonistic to #Proton / #DXVK repackagings, not relying on them is kinda important, as this setup also helps with otger applications that ain't strictly games or in setups that one may not want to be on the internet.

It makes #TheSims and #FightingIsMagic just work on anything that is #amd64 and has enough resources to throw at it.

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one of the most important mac applications i've had since the powerpc days is telestream's ScreenFlow.... which began its life as a simple screen recording app, and slowly transitioned into a full tilt video editing suite over the next 15+ years. i've paid for a couple of upgrades over the years, just because it's 100x more enjoyable than dealing with final cut pro 🤢

screenflow has two cringe-inducing downsides:
- it requires activation (with a serial number)
- telestream breaks compatibility with older versions of OS X every single year and won't support older versions after a period.

they officially quit supporting anything older than v9.0 in 2021, which is tantamount to publicly announcing that v1.0 - v8.0 are now abandonware.

long story short: i spent the night archiving every single release of ScreenFlow from WBM and uploaded them to the mac garden. if you've got anything from OS X 10.5 to 10.14, you now have a working copy of screenflow.

they are uncracked at the moment - but i've contacted a fellow macgarden member who may know how to disable the activation on them.

ScreenFlow 1.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree
ScreenFlow 2.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree
ScreenFlow 3.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree
ScreenFlow 4.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree
ScreenFlow 5.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree
ScreenFlow 6.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree
ScreenFlow 7.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree
ScreenFlow 8.x: macintoshgarden.org/apps/scree

enjoy! :)

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[Nouveau podcast] LHDG23. Les abandonwares

Souvenir d'une époque bénie où on ne parlait pas encore de « retrogaming » mais où on se partageait des vieux jeux librement…

▶️ Écouter ce podcast : grisebouille.net/lhdg23-les-ab
📗 Le livre best of : editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
❤️ Soutien : ptilouk.net/#soutien

Grise Bouille · LHDG23. Les abandonwares
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Ultim@te Race Pro de 1998

La verdad es que no recuerdo nada de este juego, así como el Stunts o el Carmagedon los tengo grabados en la memoria a fuego, como el Need For Speed Hot pursuit, este si no es porque está el manual en la caja ni sabría de su existencia. Aún así, estaba en la caja así que merece su reconocimiento. Ademas por internet tiene buenas criticas.

Algo de info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate

Disponible en Archive.org :
archive.org/details/UltimateRa

O disponible y con más info en MyAbandonWare :
myabandonware.com/game/ultimat

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Seguimos desempolvando las cajas de recuerdos de casa familiar. Hoy toca #DarkForces:

Star Wars: Dark Forces fue el primer FPS basado en el universo de Star Wars y uno de los primeros videojuegos en comercializarse en formato CD-ROM por las secuencias de video que incorporaba, que ocupaban un considerable tamaño para la época.

Debe ser de 1996 o algo más cuando estuve yo jugando.

Aquí un video de alguien dándole un repaso al juego via emulación:
peertube.fr/w/28ae5b0c-491e-48

El tiempo va borrando los detalles pero recuerdo dispararle a los robots pequeñajos en plan Rumba, hoy creo que me daría pena.

Más info en la wiki
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_War

O en el texto alternativo de las imágenes, que la verdad son para hacerte pensar, entre el servicio técnico, los métodos de contacto, las cosas a tener en cuenta...

Aunque la versión inglesa de la Wiki casi siempre tiene más datos, como por ejemplo que el año pasado sacaron el juego para plataformas actuales.

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Aaaaah trop bien le jeu Abandonware France de cette semaine c'est Star Trek: Klingon Honor Guard, le FPS sauce Unreal Engine 1 ! Je me rappelle qu'à l'époque j'avais juste vite fait testé une démo, hâte d'y jouer vraiment pour faire la comparaison avec Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, qui lui tournait sur le moteur de Quake III Arena.

#retrogames #abandonware #StarTrek #unreal

www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_jeu.php?id=3028

www.abandonware-france.orgStar Trek The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard - Abandonware FranceBon, passer son temps à tester des STR en pagaille, c’est cool. C’est mon genre de prédilection, et je ne refuse jamais l’opportunité de poser les mains sur de n...
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Looking for some more advanced techies to help me out here. I was browsing the files of old abandonware (as one does) and came across the .zym file format in a game called Gubble 2. Does anyone have any idea what this file format is? Is it something proprietary by the gubble devs? Something that just isn't used anymore? The only thing google brought up regarding .zym was some mods for quake.

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#MastodontDE

Dinge, die man auf Mastodon niemals sagen sollte:

"Natürlich hat #Nintendo das Recht gegen #Emulator|en der aktuellen Konsolengeneration vorzugehen, wenn dabei geistiges Eigentum verletzt wird. Das ist gerade auch dann legitim, wenn der Hersteller die Emulation von noch nicht veröffentlichten Titeln hinter einer Bezahlschranke anbietet. Hier ist der Fall ganz anders gelagert als bei #Abandonware und bei der #Emulation von historischen Systemen."

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Okay, okay. Geil.

Ich hab mit #freelancer 2003 gelernt, dass Weltraum Spiele gar net überfordern müssen und auch noch epische Story bieten können.

Leider is das Spiel von Microsoft iwann vom Markt genommen worden. #abandonware

Hab zwar CD noch, aber jetzt die Dateien mit Patch zu finden und dann noch ne Anleitung fürs #steamdeck.

Oh my ich hab Bock.

Freelancer: myabandonware.com/game/freelan
Anleitung: reddit.com/r/freelancer/s/1sg4

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En 2005, comme j’utilisais beaucoup (trop) le Win98 familiale, j’ai eu mon premier PC à moi sous WinXP.

Avec était fourni un jeu EAgames qui m’avait bien occupé à l’époque, sans jamais ne l’avoir fini.

Maintenant je suis sous
#Linux.
Grâce à
abandonware [www.abandonware-france.org] et à @lutris j’ai occupé ma fin d’année 2024 en y rejouant et en le finissant !

En plus j’ai trouvé un patch pour le rendre HD et 16/9.

C’était franchement pas terrible, (d’où le fait que je ne cite pas le jeu) mais j’ai clos un chapitre de mon passé
🤣

#abandonWare #retroGaming #gamingLinux #gamingLinuxFR

www.abandonware-france.orgAbandonware France, le site retrogaming dédié à la sauvegarde du patrimoine vidéo ludique PC.Toute l'histoire du jeu vidéo - jeux vidéo, personnalités, compagnies, manuels, livres, magazines, vidéos, , forums...
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@riley
Yep, but I know what I am doing. As a technical writer (besides a developer), I know that some things are hard to communicate. I set up a VM and script to automate and preserve the last software to create a product, but when they need to actually update or upgrade, even that's hard for the experienced. It isn't as easy as you think. You have to understand design, and whilst a company is often happy to spend the money for people to do software or hardware archeology, the little guys like us probably aren't.

An escrow is much better than nothing, obviously.

My take is old devices and old software that becomes abandonware is like a dead rat with fleas. Most everybody will migrate unless they have no choice.

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@gnemmi @methuselah @daniel whichever they are, #NameThemBlameThem would be essential for #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec - alongside the messages of them saying they don't give a shit.

  • Anything else is undue leniency and accomplicity, as I'd nit he surprised if such "#Abandonware" is part of a campaign to do #InfoStealing or attack the Comms of people deemed "hostile" by the attackers, which may or may not be state-sponsored or acting under duress...

#Trnapsarency is essentual here!!!

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Creo que va siendo hora de deshacerse de algunas cosas de casa de mi madre que no voy a volver a necesitar más.

En concreto la #3Dblaster #Voodoo2 la recuerdo con mucho cariño por las horas que pude jugar con aquel ordenador y la sensación de añadir a la t. gráfica normal una extra para el 3D! (Creo que es de 1998)

El Joystick no es que no lo usará unas cuantas horas también, pero instalar esa gráfica creo fue un punto de no retorno en el camino de ser informático.

tomshardware.com/reviews/creat
duiops.net/hardware/tarjgraf/c