There is a lot
of abandonware out there, so you can find public domain games, but many ROMs are illegal and we don't condone piracy.
That being said, the game can be found on a number
of abandonware websites if you want to put yourself through some painful graphical adventures from the mid-1990s.
Like many of the other games on this list, Pool of Radiance can be found on a number
of abandonware websites but it is not a freeware title, meaning downloading is at your own risk.
Not exact matches
Not because
of the game itself, but due to the fact that it's available for free as
abandonware.
I implore everyone to dive into their MS DOS back catalogue and check out all
of these diamonds that are hidden in the
abandonware scrap heap.
In an effort to clear things up we examine the different types
of Abandonware, as well as listing some
of the best
abandonware games that you can currently download.
What makes a game
abandonware is when the owner
of that game doesn't demand the right to it anymore.
We have collected the most interesting
abandonware from an American point
of view here.
Currently the original Civilization is only available on
abandonware websites and will require DOSBox, alternatively, there are a number
of freeware remakes including FreeCiv which can run in either a Civ I or Civ II mode, emulating the original commercial games very closely.
A free download
of the game can be found on many
abandonware or DOS dedicated websites, but it is not freeware.
Many
of these sites list the game as
abandonware and offer the original game files for download but the game is technically not «free».
All
of these figures include apps removed by Apple and their publishers, but the dramatic increase in removals just weeks after the deadline passed can only be the result
of Cupertino's custodians dropping the axe on what they determined to be faulty
abandonware.