liberated games site

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<http://www.liberatedgames.com/about.php>

Liberated Games is dedicated to cataloging all full commercial
games that have been liberated and made free in playable form
to the public.
. . .
We neither condone nor engage in distributing games which are
commonly called "Abandonware".

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»Q« wrote:

> [fu set to a.c.f.games]
>
> <http://www.liberatedgames.com/about.php>
>
> Liberated Games is dedicated to cataloging all full commercial
> games that have been liberated and made free in playable form
> to the public.
> . . .
> We neither condone nor engage in distributing games which are
> commonly called "Abandonware".

A lot of shareware versions with links to where you can get the full
versions.

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No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware,
nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
or warez please.

 

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Great site and idea, just that it seems very hard to actually download the
games available...

Tried several including Alien V Predator and could just find some open
source code, not the actual game

Graham


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John Corliss <jcorliss@secrewspam.to#> wrote in <news:10jb3ssrimpj1f4
@corp.supernews.com>:

>> <http://www.liberatedgames.com/about.php>
>>
>> Liberated Games is dedicated to cataloging all full commercial
>> games that have been liberated and made free in playable form
>> to the public.
>> . . .
>> We neither condone nor engage in distributing games which are
>> commonly called "Abandonware".
>
> A lot of shareware versions with links to where you can get the full
> versions.


For a lot of the games whose source code was released, the games' data
files were not released; for those games, only the demos are playable
for free. I think the point of this is to encourage people to port
them to other platforms. OTOH, there are quite a few games whose full
binary package was released. I haven't played many of the games listed
there, but among the ones I have, Beneath a Steel Sky in my fave. I
played it under ScummVM, <http://www.scummvm.org/>. (ScummVM is
freeware, but most of the games you can use it with are not.)

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»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
>[fu set to a.c.f.games]
>
><http://www.liberatedgames.com/about.php>
>
> Liberated Games is dedicated to cataloging all full commercial
> games that have been liberated and made free in playable form
> to the public.
> . . .
> We neither condone nor engage in distributing games which are
> commonly called "Abandonware".

Sounds a bit immature to me.