@JessTheUnstill @bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @tomiahonen @fuchsiii
But I also consider why @torproject hasn't done so:
And lets be honest @tails_live / @tails / #Tails is way more important to maintain as with #TorBrowser, literally human lives depend on it!
@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.
It makes #TheSims and #FightingIsMagic just work on anything that is #amd64 and has enough resources to throw at it.
Schneier on Security: Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets. “Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. Presumably the projects don’t realize that they have been abandoned, and still ping them for […]
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: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-1
ScreenFlow 2.x: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-2
ScreenFlow 3.x: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-3
ScreenFlow 4.x: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-4
ScreenFlow 5.x: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-5
ScreenFlow 6.x: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-6
ScreenFlow 7.x: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-7
ScreenFlow 8.x: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/screenflow-8
enjoy! :)
[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 : https://grisebouille.net/lhdg23-les-abandonwares
Le livre best of : https://editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
Soutien : https://ptilouk.net/#soutien
@fennix personally, I think corporations should be mandated to guarantee a support lifecycle for a product and put that front and center on the product packaging.
I.e. "Updates guaranteed until 01/2038"
If it was my decision, @bsi would be pressibg charges against vendors who produced such #Abandonware and refuse to fix them!
Ooo I haven't thought about #SimTower in quite a while. https://homeoftheunderdogs.net/search.php?search_company=Maxis
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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Race_Pro
Disponible en Archive.org :
https://archive.org/details/UltimateRacePro
O disponible y con más info en MyAbandonWare :
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/ultimatte-race-pro-evj
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:
https://peertube.fr/w/28ae5b0c-491e-4834-8a04-6514c4dafd6a
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
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Dark_Forces
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.
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
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.
Meanwhile installing nano2000 and nanoXP VMs.
50 and 60 MB respectively.
Imagine if MS opened the source code to their abandonware instead of letting it rot.
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2024/fall/what-abandonware-teaches-us-about-the-importance-of-software-freedom# #OrgAbandonWare : What #abandonware teaches us about the importance of #softwarefreedom
Testing j2me SDK Win XP QEMU VM via VNC in Termux Android.
Why? Because I love coding on phone, and I want to write stuff for old phones on new phones.
#foss #windows #abandonware #j2me #java #programming #android #termux #necromancy #deviations #insanity ...
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 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
@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.
@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.
#Trnapsarency is essentual here!!!
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