~/Mr Abandonware
@mrabandonware.bsky.social
I play and archive old games
PC, MS-DOS era to early 2000s Abandonware Enthusiast and Data Hoarder
Occasional C64, Amiga, SEGA & SNES gamer
Taking my first steps towards moving, permanently, to Linux.
mrabandonware.wordpress.com
PC, MS-DOS era to early 2000s Abandonware Enthusiast and Data Hoarder
Occasional C64, Amiga, SEGA & SNES gamer
Taking my first steps towards moving, permanently, to Linux.
mrabandonware.wordpress.com
Pinned
Are you interested in MS-DOS gaming? Want to play old games on modern computers? Not sure which emulator to use?
I'm putting together a small, but growing, collection of abandonware games ready to play on the latest Windows OSs.
You can get them here:
archive.org/details/@mr_...
I'm putting together a small, but growing, collection of abandonware games ready to play on the latest Windows OSs.
You can get them here:
archive.org/details/@mr_...
A really interesting perspective, I love hearing stuff like this.
My most personal video, yet. It combines gaming history with world history, as well as my first-hand personal experiences of living through those histories. It aims to discuss Fallout from a wholly different perspective. #gaming #retrogaming #crpgs #pcgaming
youtu.be/Hi2D9xRjw7s
youtu.be/Hi2D9xRjw7s
Why Ex-Communist Countries LOVE Fallout
YouTube video by StefaNonsense
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A really interesting perspective, I love hearing stuff like this.
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Oh, cool! Game preservation people have managed to recover a full install of Battletech 3025 - a defunct multiplayer mech shooter.
Efforts are currently in progress to reverse-engineer a server framework and get that up and running, bringing it back to life.
www.myabandonware.com/game/multipl...
Efforts are currently in progress to reverse-engineer a server framework and get that up and running, bringing it back to life.
www.myabandonware.com/game/multipl...
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Oh, cool! Game preservation people have managed to recover a full install of Battletech 3025 - a defunct multiplayer mech shooter.
Efforts are currently in progress to reverse-engineer a server framework and get that up and running, bringing it back to life.
www.myabandonware.com/game/multipl...
Efforts are currently in progress to reverse-engineer a server framework and get that up and running, bringing it back to life.
www.myabandonware.com/game/multipl...
Absolutely, it’s one of the most compelling and thought provoking games I’ve played in recent years.
SOMA is less than 2 quid.
SOMA is one of the best sci-fi stories in games, perhaps even beyond.
You should buy SOMA.
SOMA is one of the best sci-fi stories in games, perhaps even beyond.
You should buy SOMA.
Save 95% on SOMA on Steam
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very exi...
store.steampowered.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Absolutely, it’s one of the most compelling and thought provoking games I’ve played in recent years.
Nice one GOG.
Warhammer: Dark Omen, a beloved classic in the Warhammer Fantasy universe originally released in 1998, is back, brought by SNEG and available only on GOG!
Learn more here: gog.com/news/release_warhammer_dark_omen
Learn more here: gog.com/news/release_warhammer_dark_omen
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Nice one GOG.
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
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The last time Tim Sweeney *designed* an actual game was 33 years ago. Just sayin'.
December 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The last time Tim Sweeney *designed* an actual game was 33 years ago. Just sayin'.
New games for DOS, all from the DOSember Game Jam.
THIRTY NINE ENTRIES. 😐
Go play 'em! Leave a lovely comment! Follow the devs! Get inspired!
Go play 'em! Leave a lovely comment! Follow the devs! Get inspired!
Submissions to DOSember Game Jam
itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New games for DOS, all from the DOSember Game Jam.
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Since I'm being crabby about abandonware, I will recommend two folks that I think do a nice job updating games that are no longer for sale and working on modern OS, and take downloads down when they're rereleased
Collection Chamber
collectionchamber.blogspot.com
Zomb's Lair
www.zombs-lair.com
Collection Chamber
collectionchamber.blogspot.com
Zomb's Lair
www.zombs-lair.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Since I'm being crabby about abandonware, I will recommend two folks that I think do a nice job updating games that are no longer for sale and working on modern OS, and take downloads down when they're rereleased
Collection Chamber
collectionchamber.blogspot.com
Zomb's Lair
www.zombs-lair.com
Collection Chamber
collectionchamber.blogspot.com
Zomb's Lair
www.zombs-lair.com
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The correct Doom 3 experience is the original one, where you must choose between having your flashlight or your weapon equipped.
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The correct Doom 3 experience is the original one, where you must choose between having your flashlight or your weapon equipped.
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If you enjoy a game, it's a good game.
It doesn't matter what anyone else says or thinks. What matters is that you are enjoying yourself.
It doesn't matter what anyone else says or thinks. What matters is that you are enjoying yourself.
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If you enjoy a game, it's a good game.
It doesn't matter what anyone else says or thinks. What matters is that you are enjoying yourself.
It doesn't matter what anyone else says or thinks. What matters is that you are enjoying yourself.
I'm going to start pushing for demasters of remasters.
Yes, System Shock 2 remastered, I'm looking at you (and my eyes hurt).
Yes, System Shock 2 remastered, I'm looking at you (and my eyes hurt).
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I'm going to start pushing for demasters of remasters.
Yes, System Shock 2 remastered, I'm looking at you (and my eyes hurt).
Yes, System Shock 2 remastered, I'm looking at you (and my eyes hurt).
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🥳After 38 years, a brand-new adventure is about to begin on the Commodore 64!👉Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave is finally coming, bringing the full experience to our beloved 8-bit machine #bubblebobble #c64 #commodore64 @freeze64.bsky.social @commodoreblog.uk @freeze64.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🥳After 38 years, a brand-new adventure is about to begin on the Commodore 64!👉Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave is finally coming, bringing the full experience to our beloved 8-bit machine #bubblebobble #c64 #commodore64 @freeze64.bsky.social @commodoreblog.uk @freeze64.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social
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We did a podcast with DOS Game Club about Ascendancy, a 1995 4X turn-based strategy game set in outer space.
It's not the most famous game or anything, but I had a good time with it and very much enjoyed talking about it with some of our club members!
www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy/
It's not the most famous game or anything, but I had a good time with it and very much enjoyed talking about it with some of our club members!
www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy/
Ascendancy – DOS GAME CLUB Podcast
Monthly online discussion and roundtable podcast featuring one DOS game per episode.
www.dosgameclub.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We did a podcast with DOS Game Club about Ascendancy, a 1995 4X turn-based strategy game set in outer space.
It's not the most famous game or anything, but I had a good time with it and very much enjoyed talking about it with some of our club members!
www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy/
It's not the most famous game or anything, but I had a good time with it and very much enjoyed talking about it with some of our club members!
www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy/
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Look I get that Linux has its own gaping wounds, but at least it doesn't force you to edit s core component purely to turn of the perpetual slope machine that will steal your data.
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Look I get that Linux has its own gaping wounds, but at least it doesn't force you to edit s core component purely to turn of the perpetual slope machine that will steal your data.
EGA Giger would have still looked great.
Who knows, this might have played better!
Who knows, this might have played better!
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
EGA Giger would have still looked great.
Who knows, this might have played better!
Who knows, this might have played better!
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
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Half-life 1 is 27 years old today!
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Adventure — LambdaGeneration
Celebrate Half-Life’s 25th anniversary and explore Half-Life’s legacy in this interactive mini-game. Featuring the voice of Dr. Isaac Kleiner, Harry S. Robins!
hl25.lambdageneration.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Half-life 1 is 27 years old today!
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
Good day to revisit Valve's 25th Anniversary celebration content, and @lambdageneration.com 's fun little browser-based Half-life adventure game
hl25.lambdageneration.com
www.half-life.com/en/halflife/...
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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
With three megs of hot RAM burning a hole in our pocket, we step into a computerised version of the Sprawl in 2058.
📺: Neuromancer, Interplay, 1988 (C64 version)
Little 🧵 will follow
With three megs of hot RAM burning a hole in our pocket, we step into a computerised version of the Sprawl in 2058.
📺: Neuromancer, Interplay, 1988 (C64 version)
Little 🧵 will follow
July 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
With three megs of hot RAM burning a hole in our pocket, we step into a computerised version of the Sprawl in 2058.
📺: Neuromancer, Interplay, 1988 (C64 version)
Little 🧵 will follow
With three megs of hot RAM burning a hole in our pocket, we step into a computerised version of the Sprawl in 2058.
📺: Neuromancer, Interplay, 1988 (C64 version)
Little 🧵 will follow
Good, let it burst, and every CEO who bought into this should be tarred-and-feathered, and never given a position of responsibility ever again.
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Good, let it burst, and every CEO who bought into this should be tarred-and-feathered, and never given a position of responsibility ever again.
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The pre-release for UZDoom's debut is here! If you'd like to help us test UZDoom in preparation for 4.14.3 grab the build here: github.com/UZDoom/UZDoo... (expand the Assets tab)
(Windows and Linux available; Mac coming later)
Read the details here: zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...
(Windows and Linux available; Mac coming later)
Read the details here: zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The pre-release for UZDoom's debut is here! If you'd like to help us test UZDoom in preparation for 4.14.3 grab the build here: github.com/UZDoom/UZDoo... (expand the Assets tab)
(Windows and Linux available; Mac coming later)
Read the details here: zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...
(Windows and Linux available; Mac coming later)
Read the details here: zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...
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For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting
That reminds me, I was going to find the time to play Call of Duty 4 again…
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
That reminds me, I was going to find the time to play Call of Duty 4 again…
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I've made a video game! Do you like Snatcher but thing it's way too optimistic and also too long to pay attention to? Yes, check out my free short DIGITAL COMIC VISUAL NOVEL ADVENTURE GAME:
CYBER
PUNK
JANITOR
It's like Snatcher for people with ADHD who have to clean bathrooms
CYBER
PUNK
JANITOR
It's like Snatcher for people with ADHD who have to clean bathrooms
My OKTROLLBERFEST game, Cyber Punk Janitor, is ready to play! It's an adventure game/visual novel and the troll conceit is that everything is trying to kill you. 12 endings and only one of them is non-lethal!
whydoisay.itch.io/cyberpunkjan...
🧵
#indiegames #cyberpunk #videogames #scifi
whydoisay.itch.io/cyberpunkjan...
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#indiegames #cyberpunk #videogames #scifi
Cyber Punk Janitor by Jeremy W. Kaufmann
Short visual novel about being a janitor in a Bad Future!
whydoisay.itch.io
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I've made a video game! Do you like Snatcher but thing it's way too optimistic and also too long to pay attention to? Yes, check out my free short DIGITAL COMIC VISUAL NOVEL ADVENTURE GAME:
CYBER
PUNK
JANITOR
It's like Snatcher for people with ADHD who have to clean bathrooms
CYBER
PUNK
JANITOR
It's like Snatcher for people with ADHD who have to clean bathrooms
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B.J. Blazkowicz roleplayingly killing nazis and raiding tombs.
(Your reminder that a PC port of the iOS version of "Wolfenstein RPG" is available here: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/... )
(Your reminder that a PC port of the iOS version of "Wolfenstein RPG" is available here: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/... )
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
B.J. Blazkowicz roleplayingly killing nazis and raiding tombs.
(Your reminder that a PC port of the iOS version of "Wolfenstein RPG" is available here: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/... )
(Your reminder that a PC port of the iOS version of "Wolfenstein RPG" is available here: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/... )