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2 How many games must have been written since 1987 ?
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4 I'd say at least > 50,000
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6 Who can forget the awesome "Solomon's Key" which enlightened us ?
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8 Well, back then I did something really interesting.
9 I connected my Amiga with a tape recorder and recorded the music of some of
10 my favorite games. Now I came across the same tape again and with nostalgy
11 listened to the great music of Lotus Turbo Esprit, Captive and Turrican I.
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13 Any game that was written 10 years ago for a 8/16-bit architecture with
14 256kB of memory at 1MHz has no practical value today.
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16 But don't throw it away!
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18 Programming is an art and all these games will always have a value for those
19 who like the code (the collector code-ants).
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21 If you have any source code of old games or know any author who wrote a game
22 back then or have any links, please, please send me a mail.
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24 I'm thinking about making a database of abandonware games. The dream is,
25 that one day ALL the games ever written will be in the database and not a
26 single bit will be lost in oblivion.
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28 Save the abandonware games!
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