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(Although this is slowly changing- the rise of digital distribution has seen publishers put their entire back catalogue on services like Steam, and there are even online stores such as [http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/ Good Old Games] who even going as far to develop their own upgrades to them so they'll work on modern computers. See also [[Emulation]].)
Home of the Underdogs was, for quite a long time, and now is again, an Abandonware 'museum', where users could find archived copies of many Abandonware and Freeware games. As the name implies, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090311011836/http://www.hotud.org/ website] is (mostly) dedicated to underperforming, rare, or just plain ''bad'' games.
[[Macintosh]] users can find applications in [http://www.macintoshgarden.org/ the Macintosh Garden], once directly part of HOTUD but now just link to each other. In both HOTUD and Macintosh Garden, [[Sturgeon's Law]] takes effect, and how!
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