Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:57 pm
That TOM Productions is also available in English:
http://www.tom-games.de/eng/index.html
http://www.tom-games.de/eng/index.html
A message board to talk about DOS games, get help, and find old games.
https://dosgames.com/forum/
Yes, but the English page is a bit outdated. The newer additions like the ASCII Game of Robot and the Windows versions of the German-only Game of Robot series are only found on the German site.Mr. Worm wrote:That TOM Productions is also available in English:
http://www.tom-games.de/eng/index.html
It is said you need permission to distribute (host.... ?) those games.Alle hier präsentierten Inhalte unterliegen dem Urheberrecht und dürfen nicht ohne vorherige, ausdrückliche Zustimmung des Autors verwendet werden.
Hum, difficult. Of course everyone has to write on its website that the contents are copyrighted and can't be used by other people without permission. But that disclaimer goes for the whole website and its contents. But the games are not for nothing freeware and shareware, actually you can "use" them in someway if you keep the conditions. The license information of the game PC-Bakterien contains the following:dosraider wrote:I really hate to be a spoiler, alas, if I understand this right:It is said you need permission to distribute (host.... ?) those games.Alle hier praesentierten Inhalte unterliegen dem Urheberrecht und duerfen nicht ohne vorherige, ausdrueckliche Zustimmung des Autors verwendet werden.
Ahem.
Is this right Grandy02? I'm only Dutch/French/Anglaise, what you think?
Huh? A lot of the games on dosgames.com are also available on other sites. And what makes the difference whether you either downloaded the game from another site or got the game from a CD, the game is still the same and the copyright holder of the game stays the same, too. Nobody can prove that. Or do I understand completely wrong???dosraider wrote:There is no real need to always quote the previous post, it's make the whole topic really messy ~dosraider
Probably, yes.Grandy02 wrote: Or do I understand completely wrong???
Ahem! dosgames.com is not an AbandonWare site.dosraider wrote:There is something called 'good manners' and 'fair-play' between AW sites.
u down them somewhere else.
But the TOM Productions homepage isn't an AW site, it's the makers' site, that only offers their own games. Like 3D Realms (Apogee) and Soleau Software also still offer their old games on their sites.dosraider wrote: There is something called 'good manners' and 'fair-play' between AW sites.
Yes, but I didn't want to speak about downloading hundreds of games from other sites, only a small number of certain games. That's bad of course if somebody abuses the hard work of other people, but I didn't mean that.dosraider wrote: It would be easy to download everywhere games and host them.
In no time you can have some 3000 games on your site.
And get the whole AW scene allover you also.
I already had the PC-Bakterien! game before I even had Internet. But an older version, of course.dosraider wrote: It's usual to host the games you own yourself.
I hope that I'll get the maker's answer soon. But as I told, that isn't an AW site.dosraider wrote: Or have the explecit permission to host them if you down them somewhere else.
Yes, of course, that's why I only suggest a small number of games. Not so well-known games in particular to save them from being forgotten.dosraider wrote: Once again: it's not about having as much as possible games on your site, nor grow as fast as possible.
@emmzee: Can you now tell me whether these games are suitable for dosgames.com?Andreas Tofahrn wrote:Wenn Du der Meinung bist, die uralten, existierenden DOS-Versionen seien dort gut aufgehoben, dann mach' das einfach.
Okay, I'll not make new posts in this topic until there is something new in it. Actually, I didn't want to know when those games could be added, I wanted to know whether at all.dosraider wrote:Why so pushy Grandy02?
It's not that those games aren't findable or completely lost.
And believe me, as said before, emmzee and the others have huge PILES of games that can be added.
I check the forum more or less continuous for new posts. But I'd only post by myself if I have something to contribute - and if I'm not lazy at the moment.dosraider wrote:All your posts are in your own topic.
But I will tell you again: you don't annoy me.Grandy02 wrote:Don't tell me again I wouldn't annoy you, that must be a lie.
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