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General discussionInternet Archive makes thousands of DOS games free - including Master of Orion.(134 posts)(134 posts)
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Posted January 06, 2015
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RWarehall: Its a scam for piracy. Pirate sites these days always claim they are doing it for preservation. They have Diablo 2 on the site. Clearly a pirate site. Any legitimate site would avoid titles which are obviously still available.
Is Diablo 2 still sold by Blizzard?
I thought it's only available used by now, just like Diablo 1 and Hellfire.
Blizzard's own shop doesn't have those.

Where did you find Diablo 2 at archive.org?
Post edited January 06, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted January 06, 2015
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RWarehall: Its a scam for piracy. Pirate sites these days always claim they are doing it for preservation. They have Diablo 2 on the site. Clearly a pirate site. Any legitimate site would avoid titles which are obviously still available.
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Klumpen0815: Is Diablo 2 still sold by Blizzard?
I thought it's only available used by now, just like Diablo 1 and Hellfire.
Blizzard's own shop doesn't have those.

Where did you find Diablo 2 at archive.org?
Typed it into it's search.
Of course you could go here where there is the "Buy it Now" option....

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d2/
Post edited January 06, 2015 by RWarehall
Posted January 06, 2015
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Klumpen0815: Is Diablo 2 still sold by Blizzard?
I thought it's only available used by now, just like Diablo 1 and Hellfire.
Blizzard's own shop doesn't have those.

Where did you find Diablo 2 at archive.org?
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RWarehall: Typed it into it's search.
I did too and this is the result:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Diablo%202&groupby=mediatype

Software:
Diablo 1 Demo

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RWarehall: Of course you could go here where there is the "Buy it Now" option....
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d2/
This page doesn't exist or some other horrible error has occurred.
Probably not available in Europe?

Edit: Now I got the page working, still no Diablo 1 + Hellfire, Warcraft, Warcraft 2 + Addon though.
I don't understand how they could abandon those so quickly.
Post edited January 06, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted January 06, 2015
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Klumpen0815: Edit: Now I got the page working, still no Diablo 1 + Hellfire, Warcraft, Warcraft 2 + Addon though.
I don't understand how they could abandon those so quickly.
I think it's the 64-bit compatibility problem. Those may have come out in 16-bit.
Posted January 06, 2015
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Klumpen0815: Edit: Now I got the page working, still no Diablo 1 + Hellfire, Warcraft, Warcraft 2 + Addon though.
I don't understand how they could abandon those so quickly.
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RWarehall: I think it's the 64-bit compatibility problem. Those may have come out in 16-bit.
So they don't work with Win7 64bit?
Good that I play in WinXP and Mint.
Posted January 06, 2015
Last time I checked that page a lot of the games there were demo or shareware versions. Granted, I didn't check all of them, and full games might exist there as well, but mostly what I saw were demos.
Posted January 06, 2015
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Huinehtar: Legal things aside, playing via browser, isn't it the ultimate DRM? Does it require an internet connection?
*sigh*
Asshole Internet Archive for making their content availible trought internet.
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Oh, wait
Post edited January 06, 2015 by Fenixp
Posted January 06, 2015
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Huinehtar: Legal things aside, playing via browser, isn't it the ultimate DRM? Does it require an internet connection?
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Fenixp: *sigh*
Asshole Internet Archive for making their content availible trought internet.
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Oh, wait
Clearly false advertising ;)
Posted January 06, 2015
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Klumpen0815: Edit: Now I got the page working, still no Diablo 1 + Hellfire, Warcraft, Warcraft 2 + Addon though.
I don't understand how they could abandon those so quickly.
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RWarehall: I think it's the 64-bit compatibility problem. Those may have come out in 16-bit.
It's true for Warcraft I.
But Warcraft II BNE works with 64-bit OS.
Posted January 06, 2015
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RWarehall: Its a scam for piracy. Pirate sites these days always claim they are doing it for preservation. They have Diablo 2 on the site. Clearly a pirate site. Any legitimate site would avoid titles which are obviously still available.
That's a separated sub-problem and makes the underlying, fundamental problem "orphaned works" (due to broken copyright system) not at all less severe.

The *real* scandal/drama is that classics are lost legally forever, not the response (legal or illegal) by some who try to fix it (like IA).
Post edited January 06, 2015 by shaddim
Posted January 06, 2015
This site is real treasure.

I found my childhood there, again!!!

https://archive.org/details/a8b_Gyruss_1984_Parker_Brothers_US

https://archive.org/details/a8b_River_Raid_1983_Activision_US_a_k_file

https://archive.org/details/a8b_Topper_1982_Romox_US_k_file

without site like this, a lot of history would be lost forever :(
Posted January 06, 2015
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RWarehall: I think it's the 64-bit compatibility problem. Those may have come out in 16-bit.
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MorningStar33: It's true for Warcraft I.
But Warcraft II BNE works with 64-bit OS.
That's the least problematic since Dosbox makes it run everywhere and I even got a native port for the OpenPandora with touchscreen support and everything.
Post edited January 06, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted January 06, 2015
This is the same site that recently released copyrighted arcade games for play and download. This comes as no surprise to me.
Posted January 06, 2015
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yyahoo: This is the same site that recently released copyrighted arcade games for play and download. This comes as no surprise to me.
They (as accepted museum) archive and "exhibit" these classics for ''"scholarship and research purposes only"''. The games are not "released".

Also, we should be happy that someones does something about the problem of non-available orphaned works.
Posted January 06, 2015
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yyahoo: This is the same site that recently released copyrighted arcade games for play and download. This comes as no surprise to me.
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shaddim: They (as accepted museum) archive and "exhibit" these classics for ''"scholarship and research purposes only"''. The games are not "released".

Also, we should be happy that someones does something about the problem of non-available orphaned works.
I wonder if people here complain the same way about our local video game museum exhibiting old arcade machines. I'd never have been able to play Gauntlet, Donkey Kong etc... on original machines without it.
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