About: Abandonia

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Abandonia is an abandonware website, focused on showcasing video games and - where legally permissible – known best for its distributing and discussion of games made for the MS-DOS and earlier Windows operating systems. Abandonia also features a music section and an Abandonware List, a slowly expanding database of over 4600 games including information about their publishers, release dates and whether according to the staff's knowledge the software is sold, protected or "abandoned". This list is a sum total of research and inquiries made by the site's volunteer workforce and its users, with sources including MobyGames, Wikipedia and the company registry at Home of the Underdogs.

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  • Abandonia is an abandonware website, focused on showcasing video games and - where legally permissible – known best for its distributing and discussion of games made for the MS-DOS and earlier Windows operating systems. Abandonia also features a music section and an Abandonware List, a slowly expanding database of over 4600 games including information about their publishers, release dates and whether according to the staff's knowledge the software is sold, protected or "abandoned". This list is a sum total of research and inquiries made by the site's volunteer workforce and its users, with sources including MobyGames, Wikipedia and the company registry at Home of the Underdogs. Reloaded is a sister project of Abandonia, with the focus upon freeware and "freemake" (free, remade) games. Every game showcased is accompanied by a set of screenshots, and reviews written and often proof-read by the site's forum members. Both Abandonia and Reloaded are community-driven projects. With the exception of the featured games themselves, advertising and current site coding, all content available on both sites is created by the community as a volunteer effort. There has not been any intervention by the Abovo Group since 2015. Only the Abovo Media Group (an attempt to continue the previous corporate incarnation, Studentis, by Andreas Swahn) are paid for the distribution of any software, or for any member's choice to provide content or volunteer effort at the site. Both also have a game evaluation system, in which games are rated by a site reviewer and any regular visitors that might happen to try the game. Despite Abandonia.com reporting a sum total of 3 members of staff and asking for donations of 5 Euros per visitor, the actual revenue, from advertising and other methods, on Abandonia, Reloaded and the associated downloads brings in around 1,200e (~$1340) per month. The sites together are worth less than 15,000 Euros ($35,000), despite the seven-fold drop in traffic in the past few years. User visitor stats have shown a slight increase over the past year (2019) in particular, with almost 4,000 daily visitors to Abandonia and 3,000 to Reloaded. From these 7,000 visitors, mainly from USA, Holland and Australia, there are now fewer than 4% (160) downloads from the site file servers per day. 15 years ago, this was a very different situation, and the site thrived and was even host to the first ever Minecraft competition online, offering, in conjunction with Markus Persson aka Notch, free keys for premium versions for winning entries. This marked decrease can be attributed to the increase in online distributors such as GOG.com and publishers who maintain the IP rights for this software, updating and packaging the software in a "user friendly" format, for a comparatively low price for the privilege of "golden era" gaming, DRM free (of which many of these abandonware games on offer were not, or used old cracks and were not optimised for play on modern machines - provided "as is" with no support). Abandonia currently averages a total of 3 pageviews per visitor (1 landing, 1 "not available", 1 referral to GOG.com), an average of 2 minutes on site and a 58.1% bouncerate, likely from the number of adverts causing such long loading times, or the continuous [DDOS] attacks that have plagued the site for the past years. GOG.com ranks Abandonia as one of its highest referral sites, according to Alexa. Reloaded does not host its own files. As a freeware site, it redirects to the game-maker's download site directly. Compared to its competitors (many of whom offer these games for download, or to play in browser), Abandonia can be seen to be little more than a catalogue of games that gains revenue from adverts and via sponsored links to sites where these games are for sale, maintained by a few members. (en)
  • Abandonia es un sitio web de abandonware, que se centra principalmente en videojuegos de ordenador y distribución de videojuegos para el sistema MS-DOS. Abandonia también cuenta con una sección de música y una lista de Abandonware,​ una continua base de datos expandida de más de 4.600 juegos incluyendo información acerca de sus editores, fechas de lanzamiento y si de acuerdo al conocimiento del personal, el software es vendido, protegido o abandonado. Esta lista es una suma total de la investigación y preguntas realizadas por el equipo del sitio, con fuentes incluyendo, pero sin limitar a MobyGames, Wikipedia y . Abandonia Reloaded (a veces referido como "AR" o simplemente "Reloaded") es un proyecto hermano de Abandonia, que se centra en los juegos freeware. Cada juego mostrado está acompañado de un conjunto de capturas de pantalla, comentarios por escrito y corrección por los miembros. Como los sitios sin fines de lucro, tanto Abandonia y Abandonia Reloaded son proyectos impulsados por la comunidad. Con la excepción de que los juegos destacados, todo el contenido disponible en los sitios es creado por su comunidad como un esfuerzo voluntario. Ambos también disponen de un sistema progresivo de evaluación del juego, en el que la calidad del juego es evaluado no solo por el crítico, sino también por los visitantes. (es)
  • Abandonia ist eine Internet-Plattform für alte Computerspiele, hauptsächlich DOS-Spiele, die durch ihre Autoren nicht mehr gepflegt werden – sogenannte Abandonware. Die Seite unterstützt verschiedene Sprachen, u. a. auch Deutsch. Abandonia ist zurzeit eine der meistbesuchten Abandonware-Seiten im Internet und hat schon diverse Auszeichnungen erhalten. Für jedes Spiel, das in Abandonia aufgenommen wurde, existieren auch Bildschirmfotos und ein Testbericht. Die Berichte werden dabei von den Mitgliedern verfasst, die den unterschiedlichsten Nationalitäten angehören, und anschließend überprüft. So sollen alle Sprachen gleichermaßen gepflegt werden und eine hohe Qualität gesichert bleiben. Zusätzlich zu den Spielen selbst bietet die Seite auch eine Vielzahl von Emulatoren zum Download an, mit denen die Spiele auch auf neueren Betriebssystemen gespielt werden können. Es existieren noch einige Extras wie eine Musik-Kollektion, in der die Musik alter Spiele abgespielt werden kann, und eine „Altwarenliste“, in der der urheberrechtliche Status alter Spiele geprüft werden kann. (de)
  • Abandonia(.com) is een website met abandonware computerspellen uit het DOS-tijdperk. (nl)
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  • Kosta Krauth (en)
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  • A screenshot of the main page. (en)
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  • Yes (en)
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  • Kosta "Sellout" Krauth, Monica Schoenthaler, Maikel Kersbergen, Tom Henrik Aaberg (en)
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  • Active (en)
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  • 2005-05-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Abandonia (en)
  • Reloaded (en)
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  • Abovo Media Group, Sweden (en)
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  • Forums only (en)
  • not required since password leak (en)
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  • Abandonia Reloaded screenshot.png (en)
  • Abandonia title page screen shot.jpg (en)
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  • www.reloaded.org (en)
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  • Abandonia(.com) is een website met abandonware computerspellen uit het DOS-tijdperk. (nl)
  • Abandonia is an abandonware website, focused on showcasing video games and - where legally permissible – known best for its distributing and discussion of games made for the MS-DOS and earlier Windows operating systems. Abandonia also features a music section and an Abandonware List, a slowly expanding database of over 4600 games including information about their publishers, release dates and whether according to the staff's knowledge the software is sold, protected or "abandoned". This list is a sum total of research and inquiries made by the site's volunteer workforce and its users, with sources including MobyGames, Wikipedia and the company registry at Home of the Underdogs. (en)
  • Abandonia ist eine Internet-Plattform für alte Computerspiele, hauptsächlich DOS-Spiele, die durch ihre Autoren nicht mehr gepflegt werden – sogenannte Abandonware. Die Seite unterstützt verschiedene Sprachen, u. a. auch Deutsch. Abandonia ist zurzeit eine der meistbesuchten Abandonware-Seiten im Internet und hat schon diverse Auszeichnungen erhalten. Es existieren noch einige Extras wie eine Musik-Kollektion, in der die Musik alter Spiele abgespielt werden kann, und eine „Altwarenliste“, in der der urheberrechtliche Status alter Spiele geprüft werden kann. (de)
  • Abandonia es un sitio web de abandonware, que se centra principalmente en videojuegos de ordenador y distribución de videojuegos para el sistema MS-DOS. Abandonia también cuenta con una sección de música y una lista de Abandonware,​ una continua base de datos expandida de más de 4.600 juegos incluyendo información acerca de sus editores, fechas de lanzamiento y si de acuerdo al conocimiento del personal, el software es vendido, protegido o abandonado. Esta lista es una suma total de la investigación y preguntas realizadas por el equipo del sitio, con fuentes incluyendo, pero sin limitar a MobyGames, Wikipedia y . (es)
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