I never saw legit Abandonware as bad or piracy but if it's against the TOS I'll close the topic. To get them, youll need to venture to the Twilight Sepulcher. Theyre a touch better damage-wise than Daedric weapons and are considerably lighter and faster as well. From what I can tell if a license holder ever contacted an abandonware site and told them to remove an game or IP even if they didn't sell or profit from it anymore most decent abandonware sites would remove the game immediately. The weapon of Shadow.' This mod adds the four Shadow weapons from the ol RPG Stonekeep, with some 2-handy versions for 2-handy people. Those could be classified as abandonware. Then there are the games from companies that just don't exist anymore in any form and the IP was never sold to an existing license holder. It's not the same as playing illegal NES games which Nintendo still holds and enforces the licenses too along with a lot of other console publishers. OldGames.sk contains many of the classic good old games for free download for platforms such as PC DOS, Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Macintosh, Sega Genesis, Master System, NES, and SNES and many more.

A lot of the older games publishers simply didn't care if they were distributed online because they no longer sold the game.

Most abandonware are games that simply would not run on modern computers anyway without the assistance of a DOS emulator like Dosbox. If the game was still copyrighted and claimed by the publishers the legit abandonware sites would not upload the game or just provide a freeware or demo version like in the case of Duke Nukem 3D, Blood ect.

Stonekeep free download