Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 872 from 2003/3/4
From: #AmigaZeux, Gu...
Quote:takemehomegrandma wrote:
The Internet Archive has published a huge collection of more than 10,000 Amiga games, applications and demos. You can download or play directly in the browser. I fired up Bubble Bobble and it seems to be using Aros as a base, with scripted amiga emulator.
Very convenient!
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga
It's very interesting how in the last couple of years, old Amiga software has been distributed freely with no issue. When Hippy2000 ran Back2Roots, he was complaining of constant legal threats from various undisclosed commercial sources.
Now it seems nobody cares, and it didn't tail off from caring a lot to mostly caring to not very much like it did in other platforms. I heard last month of a WHDLoad image site that actually lasted more than a week, and sites like this are springing up all over the place. It was like overnight something just broke and stopped sending C&D letters. Where is Number6 when you need him?
Ironically abandonware on the PC has almost gone because of an emerging market in MS-DOS games on Steam. :)
