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Dosser
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| I've been cruious of this since I signed up for dosgames forums: Why is underdogs exempt from these rules? |
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cramhains
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Joined: 09 Jan 2005
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Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:50 am
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| I don't know and I don't care. |
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Mr. Giant
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:17 am
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| Dosser wrote: | | I've been cruious of this since I signed up for dosgames forums: Why is underdogs exempt from these rules? |
I don't know and I don't care |
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Elign
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Joined: 18 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:57 am
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| I think it's because Underdogs is more co-operative with the ESA, and they are in an East Asian country, where copyright law is not so strictly enforced as it is in the United States (and maybe Canada). |
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cramhains
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:27 pm
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| Weird. I know one site that you could get GTA1, GTA2 and Wild Metal |
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Wally
i r teh pwnage
Joined: 01 May 2003
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Location: Australia, earth, Milky way
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:01 pm
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| emmzee wrote: | Me. There's only three admins on this board: myself, DogBreath and Joris (owner of dosgamesarchive.com). We reserve the right to edit any posts that contain illegal links (or links that violate the rules of the message board). The reason is that I am ultimately responsible for any illegal content that is posted here, so to be on the safe side links to any sites (other than the-underdogs.com) that contain abandonware or warez are not allowed.  |
O So joris is admin now??? 
Im thinking you mean Jorrit, Dazza 
BTW Keen8 doesnt and never will exist properly as you would never get authorisation from ID software to distribute it. |
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cramhains
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:37 pm
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| Wally*Won_Kenobie wrote: | | emmzee wrote: | | Me. There's only three admins on this board: myself, DogBreath and Joris (owner of dosgamesarchive.com). We reserve the right to edit any posts that contain illegal links (or links that violate the rules of the message board). The reason is that I am ultimately responsible for any illegal content that is posted here, so to be on the safe side links to any sites (other than the-underdogs.com) that contain abandonware or warez are not allowed. |
O So joris is admin now???
Im thinking you mean Jorrit, Dazza
BTW Keen8 doesnt and never will exist properly as you would never get authorisation from ID software to distribute it. |
What? |
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Elign
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Joined: 18 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:52 pm
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| Yeah, make Joris admin, since he is the frontman for DGO, which is one of the DGF network sites. (as is Jorrit, the frontman for DGA) |
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emmzee
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Joined: 14 Sep 2002
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Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:49 pm
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Yep, I meant Jorrit. Sorry guys ... your names ARE similar.
As for why Underdogs is exempt ...
1) Everyone is going to wanna post it whether its banned or not 
2) The guy running it tries to keep things legit by not providing a download for any game still being sold & takes down any games requested by the authors
3) Its been featured in all kinds of places, like TechTV and major magazines ... so that makes it a little more legit |
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Dogbreath
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Joined: 14 Sep 2002
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Location: In the back of a jacked-up Ford.
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| emmzee wrote: | | 2) The guy running it tries to keep things legit by not providing a download for any game still being sold & takes down any games requested by the authors |
Last I heard, she was still a woman... though Asians are kind of strange that way. |
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Dosser
Way too much free time
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LOL: fair enough.
Does DOSgames condone Abandonware, or just share/freeware? Just that there's a lot of good games that haven't been sold in years: stuff like Warcraft I, original dooms, wolfenstein etc. That AFAIK hasn't been released by the authors but isn't sold. Would be great if Dosgames could get them online. |
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Elign
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:25 am
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Female webmaster of a DOS gaming site? Now that's a sight to see!    |
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Thunderdog
Token Black Guy
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:18 am
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| Dosser wrote: | LOL: fair enough.
Does DOSgames condone Abandonware, or just share/freeware? Just that there's a lot of good games that haven't been sold in years: stuff like Warcraft I, original dooms, wolfenstein etc. That AFAIK hasn't been released by the authors but isn't sold. Would be great if Dosgames could get them online. |
But you still run the risk of getting sued, because the companies haven't released them as freeware, therefore they still own the copyrights to them. |
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Jorrit
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:07 pm
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| emmzee wrote: | | Yep, I meant Jorrit. Sorry guys ... your names ARE similar. |
No problem, Emmzee |
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Cholera
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:50 pm
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| Hate to interrupt, but is Keen I free now? my copy is broken and he can only move down and right:P |
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