Will abandonware survive?

There something that worries me: the only sites that seem to keep going
are Abandonia and a few paid abandonware sites where you have to pay a
fee for "unlimited" downloading. Underdogs seems to be going down,
Frenchkiss (and it was a great abandonware site) is dead. I really
prefer HOTU over Abandonia because they have far more games in there,
including A Bridge Too Far. But for how long will these abandonware
sites survive? What if they not? Then all these old games will
disappear too, except for a few cd's or floppies for sale in e-Bay.
Imagine The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, disappearing when they
finally make it freeware. And imagine what would be of many great games
such as Railroad Tycoon? Many of these great games I knew only by
visiting abandonware sites.

Does you have the capability to download the 35GB or so of Underdogs?
It's fast at the moment - I bet you could do it inside a month.

I've been thinking about asking her to send me a hard disk with everything
from the site on it, but it exceeds my financial abilities... but if I could
afford it, I'd do it for sure.

Well, if anyone has a whole bunch of bandwidth and would like to
download the-underdogs _en grosse_, email me off-list and I'll help you
out with a script to get past the download CAPTCHA. It's very easy.

Cheers,
Dave

Thanks for the suggestion... I'll keep it in mind if I manage to get some
cash to get a few months of flat-rate.
Though, from what I've seen, HOTU is limited on their side, I've been
getting 16K max, regardless if I did it on my 384k ADSL, or the T1 line at
the university.

I'm getting at least 130k.

Dave

If anyone has a way to leech the whole HOTU archive let me know - as I would
be very interested in providing some sort of mirror. I have the vast
majority of the games always (I went through one by one filling the gaps in
my collection a year or two ago). So I don't need to completely catch up on
everything...

Swizzle

Just ask for access to the FTP.

lol, while that would be extremely nice, Sarinee (spelling?) hasn't even
answered any of e-mails in the past ~2 years.

Swizzle

There's always IRC and Usenet binaries for abandonware if not abandonware
http.

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2 26th February 10:40 dave burt External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? Does you have the capability to download the 35GB or so of Underdogs? It's fast at the moment - I bet you could do it inside a month.

3 26th February 10:40 mravac kid External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? I've been thinking about asking her to send me a hard disk with everything from the site on it, but it exceeds my financial abilities... but if I could afford it, I'd do it for sure.

4 26th February 10:41 dave burt External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? Well, if anyone has a whole bunch of bandwidth and would like to download the-underdogs _en grosse_, email me off-list and I'll help you out with a script to get past the download CAPTCHA. It's very easy. Cheers, Dave

5 26th February 10:41 mravac kid External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? Thanks for the suggestion... I'll keep it in mind if I manage to get some cash to get a few months of flat-rate. Though, from what I've seen, HOTU is limited on their side, I've been getting 16K max, regardless if I did it on my 384k ADSL, or the T1 line at the university.

6 26th February 10:41 dave burt External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? I'm getting at least 130k. Dave

7 26th February 10:41 swizzle External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? If anyone has a way to leech the whole HOTU archive let me know - as I would be very interested in providing some sort of mirror. I have the vast majority of the games always (I went through one by one filling the gaps in my collection a year or two ago). So I don't need to completely catch up on everything... Swizzle

8 26th February 10:41 bateau External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? Just ask for access to the FTP.

9 26th February 10:41 swizzle External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? lol, while that would be extremely nice, Sarinee (spelling?) hasn't even answered any of e-mails in the past ~2 years. Swizzle

10 26th February 10:57 cool group dude External User Posts: 1	Will abandonware survive? There's always IRC and Usenet binaries for abandonware if not abandonware http.