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1. #Abandonware dracula resurrection archive
2. #Abandonware dracula resurrection software
3. #Abandonware dracula resurrection windows

He has at one point collected many (duplicate) copies of games most of us would toss in the trash. He is fairly independent about it as tons of people have burned him with 'i will help' and then disappear. He has spent thousands of dollars to collect the games and hardware and get them properly collected. The guy who is really making this collection is *NUTS* with it. Very hard to get versions from the 1980s of any shareware package. But these have only the latest version, not historical versions.

In the mid 1990s, a lot of shareware archives got put on "shovelware" CD-ROMs, which preserved a lot of shareware that would be gone today. It's very hard, almost impossible, to find old historical versions of shareware, because they were deleted to make room for new ones. Because of small disk sizes, new versions bumped old versions in archives. The tragedy of shareware is a little different.

#Abandonware dracula resurrection software

That would open up all this historical software to the Internet. Software copyrights should have some kind of use-it-or-lose-it provision, where you can challenge the copyright - either prove the company does not exist, or prove you contacted the company and they ignored you, and the copyright is lost. What a ridiculous situation, that essentially worthless software is locked up where people can't give it to each other. These programs will go into the public domain and be out of copyright essentially when I'm about to die. You might could buy the original floppies, if you could afford them, if they still worked, and if you had a computer that could read them - I haven't had a floppy drive in a machine this century. You can't transfer the files over the Internet. The tragedy of long copyrights is that this historically important software I remember from growing up is essentially illegal to use for historical research. The copyright is still in effect, but the companies are either kaput or radically different today and no longer sell, support, or in many cases even realize they once had the software. Most of these companies are no longer around. But because of copyright, no one can use it.

#Abandonware dracula resurrection windows

Almost all this stuff still runs in an emulator (or a Windows 2000 instance). And yet no one even really knows they exist. These are seminal programs which shaped the software development and business world. Important programs like Turbo C 1.0 and WordPerfect 4.1/4.2/5.0 have disappeared. I've always wanted something similar to this archive, but for historically important application programs. So if guilt is in any way preventing you from playing these archived games, hopefully this assuages that a bit. Still, it seems like the IA is at least trying to keep this within the letter of some kind of copyright law. We can probably assume that the Copyright Office hasn't made any recent changes to its exemptions that would make what's been done here an issue, but given that the most recent confirmation of the exemption is from nearly 10 years ago, it's tough to say for certain.

It's worth noting that the exemption notice is from 2003, and it was evidently renewed in 2006.

#Abandonware dracula resurrection archive

UPDATE: Giant Bomb user helpfully pointed out that the Internet Archive folks have a DMCA exemption from the Copyright Office, which allows the site to archive: