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Over time, things get old. It happens to everything - [[DOS]] was taken out by its shiny new big sister, [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], and Windows NT was taken out by Windows 2000, and from there NT's upgrade of XP and so on.
Well, some programs don't take the aging process well. Sure, there's patches, clients, and other assorted whatnot, but over time, the developers just throw up their hands and say "forget this". Technology is too advanced, or maybe the developers just got bored. Or maybe it's planned obsolescence; if you're just patching your old software, you're not buying new stuff.
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The program is now unsupported, there are no patches left to release, or they can't make any due to compatibility issues which mean even ''trying'' isn't feasible. The program is forgotten.
Welcome to the wasteland of '''Abandonware''', where the forgotten languish in technology hell, since they can't keep up.
Websites such as [http://www.abandonia.com Abandonia] exist to allow people to play once again games that they used to have for their old 386 but have now slipped into the realms of abandonware. Many abandonware websites maintain a semblance of good faith by refusing to allow download of any game still being offered for sale. For example, until [[Duke Nukem Forever|their recent collapse]], 3D Realms used to offer all their old DOS titles (most notably ''[[Rise of the Triad]]'') for sale from their website, and such they're very difficult to find on abandonware sites.
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[[Category:Abandon Ware]]
[[Category:Depressing Tropes]]▼
[[Category:Videogame Culture]]
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