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Gallstaff - Feb 24, 2002

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  Dirk Feb 27, 2002
For pc games (i don't know if for console games is the same) a 5 years old game is an abandonware game, unless you can find it on a store. But some companies have a contract with idsa and idsa says (not the companies) that games have copyright.

 Gallstaff Feb 27, 2002
WHOOP! I found the vga! Thing is though, there is now sound? Any of you guys with the vga got sound in it?

 megametalgreymon Feb 27, 2002
look in the same place as youve installed it to

see if theres a setup file or similar, and run it if so

you will need to tell it what soundcard youve got (soundblaster is a good one to try first)

back when these games came out that was the standard way of doing it with other games anyway

 mal Feb 27, 2002
Yeah, it's got sound.

On the machine I've got it on it runs through the inbuilt speaker.

 eatpenguin Feb 27, 2002
yeah it supports soundblaster pro

and adlib

if all fails, you can settle for pc speaker

 ExCyber Feb 27, 2002

  
	
	

		
		

			For pc games (i don't know if for console games is the same) a 5 years old game is an abandonware game, unless you can find it on a store. But some companies have a contract with idsa and idsa says (not the companies) that games have copyright.


"Abandonware" is a moral distinction, not a legal one. Copyright law generally says that the author automatically has copyright until either it expires (not likely in the U.S. since they manage to retroactively extend the term every 15-20 years or so) he/she/it explicitly puts the work into the public domain. If they wanted to, Sierra could just stop selling Tribes 2 right now, and it would still not lose copyright status for around 90 (maybe it was 95, I don't remember) years. The fact that a game is no longer sold or supported does absolutely nothing to its copyright status.

 eatpenguin Feb 28, 2002
hehe

i wonder how long it would take for quake3arena to become 'abandonware'

i already consider quake 1 abandonware. it;s not like id's going to make any more money off of quake, and the engine is open source.

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