Any Abandonware HW or SW that you go on using

gugleguy · 25-01-2014 11:27PM #1

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 · 25-01-2014 11:28PM

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

Frosty McSnowballs · 25-01-2014 11:30PM

What ever happened to Gamecubes?

Sure, they were shiite!

shedweller · 25-01-2014 11:36PM

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 · 25-01-2014 11:37PM

I still light a fire to keep the house warm.

wazky · 25-01-2014 11:38PM

Pique wrote: »

I still light a fire to keep the house warm.

I light the neighbours house to keep mine warm.

Earthhorse · 25-01-2014 11:39PM

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 · 25-01-2014 11:39PM

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

Sauve · 25-01-2014 11:40PM

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 · 25-01-2014 11:41PM

Dungeon Master!

Karl Stein · 25-01-2014 11:41PM

I make dolls out of straw.

Earthhorse · 25-01-2014 11:43PM

Sauve wrote: »

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

Oh...

shedweller · 25-01-2014 11:43PM

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 · 25-01-2014 11:43PM

wazky wrote: »

I light the neighbours house to keep mine warm.

Semi-detached?

Mint Sauce · 25-01-2014 11:44PM

I still have a laptop with XP and Vista on.

Standard Toaster · 25-01-2014 11:44PM

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

Jesus, 20 years >.<

bodice ripper · 25-01-2014 11:49PM

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

Arthur Beesley · 25-01-2014 11:52PM

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 · 25-01-2014 11:55PM

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

cml387 · 25-01-2014 11:57PM

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 · 25-01-2014 11:59PM

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 · 26-01-2014 12:02AM

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 · 26-01-2014 12:06AM

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 · 26-01-2014 12:07AM

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