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retroware

noun
/ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊˌwɛə/UK/ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊˌwɛɹ/CA/-ˌweɹ/US/ˈɹet.ɹəʉˌweː/

Etymology

Blend of retro + software /hardware, or from retro- (“old-fashioned or old-school”) + -ware (“software”). First attested in 1995, but in common usage only as of the 21st century.

Definitions

  1. Old software/hardware.

    • Microsoft itself has shown only two games for Win 95: Fury3, a Descent-like flight sim, and Return of Arcade, another retroware disk.
    • The March issue of Wired looks at retroware, the growing use of older computers, in an article by Mark Frauenfelder titled “Never Say Die”.
    • p.s. My source for the ESC/P2 are old retroware/retro-computing software and the data will be coming out of 8-bit system emulators.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA