Today we have launched the Abandonware Ring Community Fund (ARCF)!
This initiative has been created to help financially support the movement and is available to all of our member sites.
We are pledging $1,000 per month to help webmasters cover costs related to running their sites, ranging from hosting fees to domain renewals. We understand that for many years webmasters have self-funded the preservation of old software, and now we feel as though it's time that all that hard work is rewarded.
We consider this to be a form of renumeration, and so are distributing the funds across all of our family. To be eligible, the only criteria is a membership at tAR.
If you're a webmaster and require help with your on-going costs, please reach out to us. Payments are sent monthly, and we have already begun distributing funds to member sites.
Viva Abandonware!
There was one new update from the existing batch, The Good Old Days, so it was appended. But, it was important.
As Mr. Creosote talks in his newest update, Project Giana is a re-imagining of the cult classic Giana Sisters back in 1987. Giana Sisters has been ported and re-made on various platforms, and enjoys a constant cult following even today from around the world.
Project Giana is made from a band of merry men and women named Black Forest Games, a result after Spellbound went...
You can help them realize Project Giana on their Kickstarter here.
As always, stay retro
- bakkelun
You probably heard about the recent success from certain classic developers into making new games with classics in mind through independent crowdfunding. It all started when Tim Schafer (designer of classics such as Full throttle and Grim fandango) decided to open a campaign in Kickstarter, and it grew to become a huge hit. He announced he needed 400,000 dollars (much higher than most Kickstarter projects), and over 3 million dollars were raised by fans alone (nobody here is "investing" for...