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Home of the Underdogs (often called HotU) was an abandonware archive〔Simon Carless, ''Gaming Hacks'' New York: O'Reilly (2004): 2 - 3. "Sites such as Home of the Underdogs ... have major copyright issues but can provide valuable resources, for example, for people who've lost legitimate copies of the manuals."〕 founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul, in September 1998. It grew to be a significant abandonware website. The site provided reviews for over 5,300 games, as well as offered downloads of software and manuals for a number of games that were no longer commercially available. This allowed it to be a valuable resource to players who lost the original discs or manuals. While a majority of games available on the site were for DOS or Microsoft Windows, the site also contained a section with games for other platforms. Where downloads for these games were provided, they were usually present in formats compatible with emulators. The site also had scans of several gamebook series, many of them complete. In addition to commercial titles, the site contained a small number of 'freeware' titles. As of September 2009, Hotud.org had rebuilt the archive. An active team of four people is working on correcting errors in the filesystem. There is an active relationship between Hotud.org and GOG.com〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2009-06-11 )〕 to promote both the history of classic gaming as well as modern access by digital distribution to these classic games. A notice went up in February of 2014 on Hotud.org stating that the site will be taken offline due to financial reasons. ==References== * http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/12/underdogs-ho/ * http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/06/15/underdogfight-home-of-the-underdogs-returns/ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Home of the Underdogs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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