My Abandonware was created in February 2009 as a revival of oldware.net. Over the years, thousands of games have been added to the site. We want to create one major video game museum on the web and let everyone enjoy the incredible amount of great software created since the 70s.
Our collection started with the DOS era. Today, Windows games are its largest part, and we host many other platforms, some of them quite obscure. We are grateful for the contributions of our visitors and the support of numerous sites like MobyGames, Underground Gamer, TOSEC and No-Intro.
Our Team
We are two French developers who build and run the website, which belongs to our company, Codestible.
A small team of regular contributors works on the site, and a few other archivists have come and gone over the past decade. If you want to help, please contact us.
Many thanks to
- MobyGames, the most complete database of video games;
- The folks of Underground Gamer who got so many precious, lost games;
- TOSEC and Jason Scott for his work on Archive.org;
- No-Intro for providing awesome ROM and digital games catalogs;
- Redump, the major Disc Preservation Project, a corner stone of digital preservation;
- Macintosh Garden and Macintosh Repository, both great sources for Mac games and Mac software;
- Old-Games.ru, one of the most complete and secret sources for late 90s / early 00s abandonware games and manuals;
- WERTA, beha_r and Egon68 from old-games.ru, for their contributions to game preservation and support;
- Retro eXo by eXo, a very dedicated archiver of the DOS and Win3.x era;
- The ISO Zone, used to be a huge collection of recent games, including some obscure titles of the early 2000s;
- LegendsWorlds, a good source for many rare Windows games;
- Old Games Download, a very active archiving project;
- Abandonware France, the best source for old French games;
- AbandonSocios, a very precious resource for Spanish games and many rare uploads;
- Myrient, a non-profit archiving project, which hosted more than 200TB of games, now mirrored as torrents by Minerva Archive;
- The Museum of Computer Adventure Game History, they got plenty of excellent manual scans, plus an incredible purpose;
- 4in6 for providing many screenshots, fixing arcade games and producing several cracks;
- Bladez1992, admin of the Legacy Gamers' Union, for mirroring its repacks on our website, awesome work!;
- Parham Aghakhani for providing underground Persian games;
- Flower Of Reasoning for the many, many games he suggested with the appropriate sources;
- Konti for the many Polish and Eastern European versions he uploaded, many bought at the bazaar;
- Lluc for dumping many obscure Japanese games;
- Quader for providing us his handcrafted releases of old games;
- zooperdan from DungeonCrawlers.org for his work on the dungeon crawler classification;
- Michael for helping us with rare North American games and supporting us many times on our BMAC page;
- Mortisanti for submitting the rampage logo;
- ThreeOhFour for the screenshots he sent to us;
- VanisK for the screenshots he took and the errors he reported;
- user "KC" for commenting and ranting so much;
- Sr.Pringles for contributing many rare sports games;
- MAZter for sharing HD scans of manuals and maps on Archive.org;
- memoriesofthedaize AKA Jazz, for archiving many kids’ games and software;
- all the uploaders on Archive.org, making many rare 2000s games available;
- Poland and all its gamers, their underground gaming culture still helps to find rare games;
- ghotik, author of DxWnd, for providing missing screenshots to many obscure games;
- Jack Rainer for the hundreds of games he contributed, MAW wouldn't be the same without him;
- Robert "dosgamer" Wilson for his contributions in the text-adventure and educational game category - RIP;
- past and current contributors, who add new games to the website: archiving can be a passion;
- Batrox for the tons of games he collected over the internet since 2000.
Fonts
The text of this site uses Noto Sans and Fira Code fonts. Both are free fonts under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and we host them on our own server.
- Noto Sans, for the text. Copyright 2022 The Noto Project Authors;
- Fira Code, for code and file names. Copyright 2014-2020 The Fira Code Project Authors;
- Oso Sans, for the buttons, by Robert Slimbach. Used under license from Adobe.
The full text of the license is on the SIL Open Font License website.