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Originally posted by Timpsi@Mar 15 2005, 04:28 PM
"The usual definition of abandonware is that the game is no longer sold or supported by the copyright holder."
"It is true that for example the specialist stores you mentioned can be harmed by abandonware sites, but the line has to be drawn somewhere"
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Nuclear Strike: No longer sold / Supported by EA?
CDAccess: "specialist games shop?"
Don't get me wrong Timpsi, my argument isn't with you. I just feel that it's a bit hypocritical of the whole abandonware scene to look for certain aspects of a game to define it as "not-abandonware". When in the same circumstances another game may be.
If CDAccess was to begin selling copies of a shareware game (which they already do) That doesn't mean that it is no longer shareware.
Likewise, if they have a game which is now in the public domain i.e.
http://www.cdaccess.com/html/pc/draglair.htm
(Recently given away free with numerous ganming magazines)
That doesn'y mean that they cannot sell it.