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[Gargantuan Orangutan]

I've recently talked to Kosta, Tom Henrik and Titan about having a subforum here at Abandonia that would revolve around and feature ISOs of abandonware games.

For quite awhile I've been very interested in seeing more attention paid to ISOs on abandonware sites. Abandonware ISOs need to preserved and distributed if the originals are going to survive.

Kosta wants to know what you think about this. If you like the idea, the goal is to have an index listed here of all the Abandonware ISOs available that can be downloaded on the web that meet a particular ethical criteria. If approved, I will provide a base listing of about 25 ISOs (already online, that aren't known to be available anywhere else) to get this listing started. Gradually the list will grow.

The whole idea beyond the project is to link to wherever these abandonware ISOs can be found, because it's not very realistic to host everything in one spot due to the large amount of space required.

Everyone can help with this. It will require participation from others for it to grow. If you come across something to add you can let us know. You can even host an ISO yourself.

The rules for exclusion are:

• It's still sold
• It's less than 5 years old
• It's ESA protected
• The IP/Copyright holder is known to dissaprove

Here's an example-listing of what it will look like (in this working example, some free file servers are used):

REMOVED, See site instead.

Let us know if what you think, and whether you're in favor of this or not.

-GO