lol. ok, taking the lead from steel and utilising Taw's Blue Peter StickybackPlastic fetish...

1. take a bunch of your cd cases and stick them together using sticky-back-plastic to create a large box with one open side.
2. repeat to make a slightly smaller box.
3. buy two hinges
4. attach 2 cd's to 2 hinges, and then hinges to open side of small box.

Voila, You've created a brand new house and stable for your Barbie Dolls.

sounds more like a Zebedee to me..

Bah! You guys don't have a clue! Just throw them in a concrete vault 100 metres below your front lawn. They'll be safe there in case of a nuclear holocaust .

Neo - Not bad, but I'm not convinced . My kids could learn so much from playing "Monkey Island". Like the wonders of grog for instance .

Edited by - esquilax on 4/21/2004 3:22:40 PM

ah, i have played the old monkey island 2 recently, as well as sid meyers pirates. Whenever i visit my parents i still dig out Dune 2 as well . Never throw old games away, I still wish i had a copy of Elite 2 to play on

You could always download it as Abandonware, Chips.

Esq, the mods don't like you taling about Abandonware

"A TopGun through and through"

Since when? It's illegal (technically), but it is morally justifiable!

since when is the distribution of obsolete games that were developed by companies that have since dissolved illegal?

My old ggames are all sitting here, oh ive got Win 95 golf, Encarta '96, Explorapedia, Diablo, TA, , Simcity 2000, Carmen Sandiego, SimEarth, Starcraft.

I still whip them out and play them from time to time, my Copy of TA (disk 1) has been burnt twice because the original got corrupted.

Ive got Dune2 and Jazz jackrabbit on this thing that i run through a Dos emulator from time to time, do any of you know where i can find a copy of 'pong?'

Simple rules: if your not playing them, store them in your normal pile, eventually you will stumble across it and play it to death again, trust me, i did that with starcraft, i now go onto BattleNet all the time

Technically, the companies still own the games as copyrighted software, and unless they relase them as freeware, it is seen as piracy. Still, if I can't buy it in a shop, and I can't order it, why shouldn't I be able to download it? That's what I reckon.

Abandonware is a moral conundrum that's for sure, but copyright is still copyright. I'm not going to bring damnation down just because people mention it. However, posting links to abandonware sites is something that I would definately call into question.

Edited by - Mustang on 4/22/2004 4:02:13 AM

@Mustang,

Seriously, if amongst your discards is a copy of Starlancer, I'd be very happy to take it off your hands.

for god's sake Ed, it's on sale at the games store in the Rockefeller Centre for a dollar 99, get yo @ss down there

What?!!!!!

Thanks. Sheez. This is humiliating. I gotta have an lunker from Staffordshire tell me where to shop.

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Actually. Thanks Taw, all I've been doing is trawlling the i-net under the assumption that stores already dumped their stocks.

Edited by - Indy11 on 4/22/2004 2:47:06 PM

and they're proper boxed copies too, not the dvd style cases. I nearly bought one, for a m8, but couldn't be bothered $1-99, it's nothing that for a quality game like SL. Down to the Sea Bass cafe or restaurant, down past the foodie bits, in that row of shops with the posh choclatier and lingerie shops. D'you want me to help you get home as well?