Anyone have good DOSbox Settings for the games?

I think it worked like this

A few years back they were abandoned ware that could be downloaded freely and ran in DOSBox.

Then EA laid claim to the abandon ware so abandon ware sites had to take the games down.

EA is now doing absolutely nothing with them.

So nobody can ever have them again.

How do you like dem apples?

Here are mine.

I play on dynamic core, with about 50000 cycles, on a 2.2GHz Athlon X2. It plays smooth. But i bet i could make it work even better.;)

Beautiful, thank you!

Sigh....

How many times do we have to go over this here. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "ABANDONWARE". All software, regardless of who made it or when it was made, belongs to someone, in this case, EA, the original publisher of the Crusader games. EA might not currently be selling them, but that does not mean either game has been "abandoned" nor does it mean that it is free to distribute or download.

All software sites that claim to offer "abandonware" are in fact promoting software piracy. The only difference between abandonware sites and a regular piracy source is the abandonware sites choose an easier target (games no one is actually selling) and they are able to rationalize their piracy as "preserving gaming history" or some other load of BS.

It sucks that EA has chosen to not do anything with the Crusader property, but it is their property to do with as they please, even if that means they are "taking their ball and going home" in a manner of speaking. We can only hope that GOG is working hard to get them on board and maybe bring the Crusader games into the GOG library.

Wow, that was better spoken than I could've done. Kudos for that.

Please, don't taint the blessed Crusader thread with that discussion again.

1. Sorry, but that is the biggest pile of bullshit I have read on these forums in a long time. The entire concept and definition of abandonware was created by those who were trying to justify their reasons for engaging in software piracy. It is nothing more than a rationalization designed to appease the consciences of both those who supply abandonware and those who download it, nothing more.

If you are going to try and equate abandonware to marijuana usage, you've already lost the fight. Unlike abandonware, marijuana actually has testable and provable legitimate uses beyond the illegal uses so many partake in. Abandonware simply claims to have a legitimate purpose when...

2. The fact is, free illegal downloads are not "software preservation" they are simply piracy. If you want to preserve software, then store your original game disks and materials in a proper manner, don't give it away for free to everyone who is too lazy and cheap to find and buy their own copy (I have never seen an "abandonware" game that I couldn't also find on eBay, Amazon, my local thrift store, etc.). If abandonware sites really wanted to preserve gaming for future generations, they would do the right thing and get permission from the correct rights holder to offer the games for download and if they can't get that, then store the materials until they can. Honestly, the only real software preserver I have found on the internet is GOG, simply because they are actually doing the right thing.

3. Kiss pirate ass much? It is flawed logic like yours that drives publishers to do stupid things like "always on" internet based copy protection that end up hurting everyone else who doesn't feel the need to illegally download games. You are right, there is a time to support the law and then there is a time to follow your own conscience, but do you seriously consider games to be the tent pole of your personal revolution against "the man"? Pick your battles better; there are far worse things going on in this world that we all should be fighting against and there are much better ways to "fight the good fight" than breaking the law.

That's how Eidos sold me all of their future release of Tomb Raider after the first one.

Cogath, some people tend to look to this issue in an Lawful Extreme.

A lot of those games that abandonware sites still host, the game companies that developed them are very well aware of and if those companies actually mind all they have to do is fire an email to the abandonware site and the site will quickly and respectfully remove it.

But a lot of the companies don't mind if the software is old and never going to available for purchase again and no longer has a market.

We're not saying that is right to do something in the Chaotic Extreme like get Witcher 2 from GoG DRM free and torrent it out to the whole entire world.

But abandonware, most of which actually is Warez from the 90's, is one of those petty instances that is grey area.

It just gets frustrating when people go to the extreme to vilify it.

And a lot of that dusty old crap you couldn't pay me to take for free anyway.

I mean let's put it this way: I have fond memories of Crusader but after all the new stuff that I've played recently I have to honestly wonder how much more time I would put into that game right now before I came to the conclusion that I was kidding myself and decided to maintain those fond memories by uninstalling and deleting.

I'm pretty much the same way, I live in a manner so as not to be an inconvenience to others but find myself more competent than the law when the law is overly righteous and petty.

Too much order generates more chaos than the chaos it was attempting to prevent.

I've often said both in America and here in NZ that I would like to follow these lawmakers around every day for a week with a camera and tally them every time they step outside of their own laws.

Also, obnoxious laws without exception are really bad. We have a no spanking law over here to discourage child beating but some children still do need light slaps on the butt to set them straight.

I can understand incarcerating someone for beating their kid black and blue but if a katty mother uses a little smack to send another desperate housewife up the river as strategy to get her out of the neighborhood for awhile, I sure hope the judges and juries are clever.

Sorry to hear it man.

NZ isn't too bad but it is obvious that everything you can think of over here has a law written against it to make it easier and quicker to get through the red tape of incarcerting people they feel are fellons but normally wouldn't have much warrant to get them put away quick enough to prevent them from shenanigans.

The problem with this though is that other citicizens that might be in disagreement with other citizens can overexaggerate instances and use this as strategy to take out a competitor temporarily.