Any Abandonware HW or SW that you go on using

gugleguy

This could be some DOS game that you play,or some gadget like an Apple Newton for instance - something that the mainstream have since well abandoned. It may not necessarily be IT related.

Sauve

What in the name of god does that mean?
Is it games?

Frosty McSnowballs

What ever happened to Gamecubes?

Sure, they were shiite!

shedweller

gugleguy wrote: »

This could be some DOS game that you play,or some gadget like an Apple Newton for instance - something that the mainstream have since well abandoned. It may not necessarily be IT related.

I have a minidisc player. I dont use it but thats what you mean, right?
I dont have anything to do with that cloud sh1te either. Getting warm??

Pique

I still light a fire to keep the house warm.

wazky

Pique wrote: »

I still light a fire to keep the house warm.

I light the neighbours house to keep mine warm.

Earthhorse

Sauve wrote: »

What in the name of god does that mean?
Is it games?

It's just software or hardware that's no longer supported by the company that made it (so abandoned). Usually I've heard it refer to games where the copyright owner isn't bothered pursuing cases of illegal distribution because there's no money to be made selling it anymore but anything that fits into a similar category, I guess.

gugleguy

yes getting warm. but, a throwaway sort of thread of mine. too tired to do something else. more for fun than anything.

Sauve

Earthhorse wrote: »

It's just software or hardware that's no longer supported by the company that made it (so abandoned). Usually I've heard it refer to games where the copyright owner isn't bothered pursuing cases of illegal distribution because there's no money to be made selling it anymore but anything that fits into a similar category, I guess.

I got the gist of the post, it was a joke.

biko

Dungeon Master!

Karl Stein

I make dolls out of straw.

Earthhorse

Sauve wrote: »

I got the gist of the post, it was a joke.

Oh...

shedweller

I suppose theres a lot of us doing this without realising. There comes an age where we just dont care as much. As a result life starts to pass us by. I listen to a podcast and now and then they have a flashback tune. Some of these are from 2008. Feck sake thats only just happened! Flashback? Try 1990!

Arthur Beesley

wazky wrote: »

I light the neighbours house to keep mine warm.

Semi-detached?

Mint Sauce

I still have a laptop with XP and Vista on.

Standard Toaster

UFO Enemy Unknown.
Play in on the phone even now, 20 years since its release.

Jesus, 20 years >.<

bodice ripper

I still play doom all the time. Did anyone stop playing it?

Arthur Beesley

bodice ripper wrote: »

I still play doom all the time. Did anyone stop playing it?

I moved onto Gloom. The Amiga clone of Doom.

bodice ripper

The pc version is the One True Doom, we all know it.

cml387

A lot of the equipment I use at work is Windows NT based. It only gets awkward when you realise it doesn't support USB, so we use 3.5 inch floppies for some data transfer.

There is a debug pc running windows 3.1 but it's not used that often.

shedweller

cml387 wrote: »

A lot of the equipment I use at work is Windows NT based. It only gets awkward when you realise it doesn't support USB, so we use 3.5 inch floppies for some data transfer.

There is a debug pc running windows 3.1 but it's not used that often.

/thread.

Unless some nutter is living the bear grylls life for real??

cml387

shedweller wrote: »

/thread.

Unless some nutter is living the bear grylls life for real??

Oh I doubt that. I'm sure someone is still nurturing a microVax running VMS.

KyussBishop

I use a program from one of those shareware CD's you used to get with PC magazines, that hasn't been updated since around 95-97, that snaps windows back from the edge of the screen (so you don't lose them behind the taskbar or such); it's called Shove-It.

It must have been the very first family computer/PC we got, that we started using it on, and it's been copy-pasted between operating system and computer updates ever since, without ever breaking, for (fúcking hell..can't believe it's that long ago) not far off 20 years now.

bodice ripper

cml387 wrote: »

A lot of the equipment I use at work is Windows NT based. It only gets awkward when you realise it doesn't support USB, so we use 3.5 inch floppies for some data transfer.

There is a debug pc running windows 3.1 but it's not used that often.

I liked NT. I would totally use it now if it were a viable option

Sir Osis of Liver.

I wear legwarmers and sport a mullet.

19543261

Emulators and roms, if that counts.

The Th!ng

Microsoft's Office '97 can be used on Windows 7 and will run like greased lightning on modern hardware.

banquo

King's Quest & Star Wars Supremacy / Rebellion.

Jonkenji

Think Sim city 2000 is abandonware

holystungun9

Sauve wrote: »

I got the gist of the post, it was a joke.

I remember jokes. Back in my day they were funny.

ottostreet

Commander Keen 4 & Duke Nukem 3D. Brilliant.

catallus

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSSRyBM7N-txNYzvUr-qkn3ooZG31-8TVGbS79uoOhCTqmkfcnyCA

I still play this

Arthur Beesley

Monkey Island

Pinch Flat

Still enjoy listening to the odd c-60

mbur

I occasionally fire up dosbox and steem to run a few old games and simulators. Does that count? I used to dabble with SNES emulators as well. Best SNES game ever was called uncharted waters. It had very good mini game where you battled pirates on the high seas. Great fun, all strategy and no thumb flipping like so many console games.

Hermy

I have an XKS 9000.
Does that count?

madmaxi

I still play scorched earth, runs on XP.

gctest50

cml387 wrote: »

A lot of the equipment I use at work is Windows NT based. It only gets awkward when you realise it doesn't support USB, so we use 3.5 inch floppies for some data transfer.

There is a debug pc running windows 3.1 but it's not used that often.

http://wdl2.winworldpc.com/Abandonware%20Service%20Packs/



http://wdl2.winworldpc.com

Ruu

Sim Ant, Doom, have a shareware version of Blood!

GerardKeating

Mint Sauce wrote: »

I still have a laptop with XP and Vista on.

A lot of ATM's still run XP.

FanadMan

Still play some of the old games on the MegaDrive.....classic fun. And can't stop playing arcade games on MAME. Jeez.....I am an old fart

Wibbs

The odd time I'll type up stuff on an Apple emate(have a serial to USB converter thingy). I regularly use a Powerbook G3(pismo) from 2000 to browse the web(running Macos 10.4). That said that's from the time when apple were ahead of the curve and innovating, rather than being a fashion company so it has wireless and USB and other stuff that since became mainstream. Although it came with something tiny like 8/16mbs of ram it was set up so it can read up to a gig of ram, so it's still very usable. With both batteries on board I can get nigh on a day off power from it.

Nabber

Still play Counter strike.

I use a washing line to dry my clothes too.

dotsman

GerardKeating wrote: »

A lot of ATM's still run XP.

Which is leading to a major headache for them as the support is running out.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/atms-face-shutdown-as-banks-scramble-to-update-it-29933684.html

As for myself, I generally don't play a lot of modern games. Much prefer classics from my youth. For that, GOG is an incredible source. Given that they always have heavily discounted sales, I typically pick up games for 2-3 euro. You're not really paying for the games themselves (as most are abandonware), more that fact that GOG have written installers for them to make these games run smoothly on Windows 7/8 etc . In the last year or 2 I've played games from GOG like:

• Syndicate Wars
• Lords of the Realm (1 & 2)
• Colonization
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Caeser 3
• Medal of Honor (original)
• Conquest of the new World
• Alpha Centauri

...as well as a number of rewrites of classic games (that support modern resolutions + other configurable improvements) that are released as open source

Transport Tycoon
Theme Hospital

kowloon

Have played UFO, Jagged Alliance, the original Fallout series and Desert Strike on a netbook. Syndicate won't run right for me. I have a calculator with a leather cover and wood veneer case, it weighs a ton and comes in somewhere between a brick and a breeze block in size. It still works.

Capt'n Midnight

GerardKeating wrote: »

A lot of ATM's still run XP.

Embedded XP is supported for at least another two years.


There is an American saying "If it works it's obsolete".

This is why they they are passengers on 1960's capsule sitting on a 1950's rocket when they visit the ISS.

Yes the Americans are developing their own rockets again.
The Antares for example. Though the first stage is more or less old Russian technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares_%28rocket%29#Design and the Cygnus is built in Italy. And they are reinventing the wheel in the sense that they have abandoned the Apollo spacecraft and several long lived families of launchers. Might still have Skylab today if they hadn't been so busy trying to improve stuff that worked well enough.


When you get into a Boeing 737 remember that it still shares commonality in fuselage sections and major design with the original 707 from 1957

Bicycles haven't changed all that much either

GoodBridge

winamp

BizzyC

abandonia is a good website for these games.

fun to load one up every now and then and dive into nostalgia.

Settlers 3 is a favourite of mine.

Diemos

Winamp V2.xxx
Editplus V2.xxx

Red Alert 2
Dungeon Keeper

Akrasia

I still play Chess 1 even though Chess 2 was released there not too long ago.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/chess-2-impressions-an-enchanting-new-twist-on-an-ancient-game/

gugleguy

The Th!ng wrote: »

Microsoft's Office '97 can be used on Windows 7 and will run like greased lightning on modern hardware.

Mmmmmm. I have the original legit Office 97 CD. :mmmmmmm. Also I have a win so machine which is far too ok. Must replace soon. Then might try office 97 CD out on win 7 new pc. F**k win 8/8.1 2whatever