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Ahoy,

any pointers for the best way to download TA (+CC&BT)? Is it on abandonware sites as suggested on this site? Bittorrent is okay but slow.
Cheers
stuart

stuartgrant wrote:Ahoy,

any pointers for the best way to download TA (+CC&BT)? Is it on abandonware sites as suggested on this site? Bittorrent is okay but slow.
Cheers
stuart

TA is not yet abandonware.

You can't buy it though.

get the original TA disc for a fiver in a used store, i did 2 years ago although it may be difficult i'm sure u can find it, online if not instores. CC+BT units are available from fileuniverse (note u cannot play the campaigns)

Das Bruce wrote:You can't buy it though.

It's not being manufactured, but you can still find it in second hand stores. Regardless, just because you can't buy it doesn't make it abandonware.

Maybe in the US you can, but you sure as hell can't here. Even the copies on Amazon won't ship here, despite them sending everything else I've wanted.

And this is why relying on copywrited material and respecting "laws" is so freaking annoying... I mean, how am I supposed to find a copy of the orriginal Final Fantasy III (for the NES) translated from japanese if I'm going to respect copywrite laws huh?

TA was in the store 2 years. TAK still is. (at least in this leftout forgotten country)

I saw the commander pack in a Game Mania in my town a fex months ago. about ├óÔÇÜ┬¼10 I think.

Check Ebay, and Amazon.

Well Command and Conquer is Abdandonware. why not TA?

there is no such thing as abandonware!!!

why do people keep talking about it... the only thing that could be concidered "really" abandonware would be games (like Epic's "ZZT" Series) that have been changed to being "freeware" by the copyright holders. Otherwise:
Term of protection

Wikipedia.org wrote:Previous copyright law set the duration of copyright protection at twenty-eight years with a possibility of a twenty-eight year extension, for a total maximum term of fifty-six years. The 1976 Act, however, substantially increased the term of protection. Section 302 of the Act extended protection to "a term consisting of the life of the author and 50 years after the author's death." In addition, the Act created a static seventy-five year term (dated from the date of publication) for anonymous works, pseudonymous works, and works made for hire. In 1998 the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended copyright protection to the duration of the author's life plus seventy years for general copyrights and to ninety-five years for works made for hire.

So that would tell me, unless your game was made before 1910, you still can sue people for copying it. If you live in the USofA... me in canada can copy stuff all I want

Anyways... what most people call "Abandonware" is stuff that "People would never bother sueing you over stealing" and you all know that if Atari got the chance to sue you for a couple thousand dollars, and it was a "sure thing" they would do it... but the people they really like to sue are message boards that host people providing sources to get illegal software... hence why none of us are acctually telling you where to find it... though honestly bit-torrent IS slow for pretty much anything that is older then a couple months... I would suggest you ask around your friends and see if any of them have a copy you could "borrow" as the copy protection is "do you have the right disk in the drive"...