Free and legal ripper game

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  • truebluedub
    Detective
    • Apr 2008
    • 135

    #1

    Free and legal ripper game

    This game has probably been mentioned on these boards before: http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/jack-...download/2176/
    It's abandonware so its download is perfectly legal. If you use Vista it is a bit of a pain to install but it does work. The game itself is difficult but fun.

    regards,
    Chris Lowe
  • Magpie
    Sergeant
    • Feb 2008
    • 625

    #2
    For the record, abandonware is NOT all legal. Some abandonware is legal, some isn't, it depends on whether the copyright holder has released their license.
    “Sans arme, sans violence et sans haine”

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    • truebluedub
      Detective
      • Apr 2008
      • 135

      #3
      oops

      Fair enough, but in this case it has fallen out of copyright (I checked). My M.A. thesis supervisor would kill me if she ever found out I didn't note abandonware wasn't all out of copyright seeing as her area is digital games and my thesis was on the sociology of copyright.
      Copyright may be a bad phrase in some places on these boards: http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=298&page=27

      Chris
      Last edited by truebluedub; 01-26-2009, 04:19 PM. Reason: added (I checked)

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      • xinthrau
        Cadet
        • Aug 2009
        • 16

        #4
        If you use DosBox which is free and I have had no prob with it, it plays this game and many others well that are dos...

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        • Gman992
          Detective
          • Dec 2009
          • 122

          #5
          They have a new one out with Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper...anyone play it yet?

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          • Suzi
            Superintendent
            • Feb 2008
            • 2167

            #6
            No Way!!!

            Don't touch these things- packed full of virus nastiness!!

            NEARLY as bad as S N O W !!!!!!
            'Would you like to see my African curiosities?'

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