i wish i had these msts trains

Those were the golden days of train simulator indeed :)

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"virus free. free train sim to all, yay" ... what word are you liveing in mate? this is ilegal and there is most likey viruses in it (its just called spyware my man, also if its leget as you say then the page maybe takken down pretty qickly becuse you just told the hole community, that includes the poeple who made the game and are planing to keep makeing money)

ok, im pretty sure this is legal because msts was released back in 2001 and microsoft is no longer supporting or updating it so this can be classified as abandonware.

hmmm am not sure, anyhow don't trust it and don't get other poeple to trust it.

how do i do the disc 2 into drive e part

ummm what?

when i start downloading the game it stops and seys put the disc 2 into drive E and i try to contunue but i cant. so how do i contunue?

Yeah this doesn't look dodgey at all ...

I still have my original CD's, yes the game came on 2 CD's not DVD's, in the original box.

Originally posted by muertedechurra:

ok, im pretty sure this is legal because msts was released back in 2001 and microsoft is no longer supporting or updating it so this can be classified as abandonware.

Failure to sell and/or support an intelctual property doesn't invalidate copyright. The copyrights protecting OLD software for things like the Apple ][, Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System are going to remain fully enforcable for multiple decades. A few of the extremely old motion pictures from back in the silent picture era are old enough to have escaaped eclusive rights extension legeslation prompted by media company lobbists.

Basically what bobbi says.

"Abandonware" isn't a category of software (FOSS/share/license etc), just a description of something that has no commercial value, and obviously is available via people breaching their copyright agreement by sharing it.

For MSTS, there is the OpenRails sim (go look it up), which does a very good job of reproducing MSTS functionality to the point that you can use 3rd party MSTS routes and rolling stock without owning the (unavaliable) MSTS itself, and which could with time and support actually render MSTS routes better than MSTS itself could.

where is the link gone lol