Today I had a trip to the National Museum of Ukrainian Architecture And Art to take pictures for my new game. The museum is an old village, where you can enter every house and see how our ancestors lived. It has a huge colleciton of real buildings that were transported there from the whole Ukraine.

Its a peaceful and quitet place, and we enjoyed it too much. I brought lots of pictures, and you can see the best of them in this post.

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All their games have 2 parts – the downloader and the game itself. When you download such game, you actually download a small program that download the rest of the game for you. And while it download the game, it show different ads to you. Most antiviruses consider this action as adware and warn you about this when you downloaded the downloader. But is this a real adware, or just the paranoia of antiviruses?

Lets check Wikipedia:

Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used. (click here to see the rest of the wiki article about adwares)

So, technically – it is the adware. But not a virus. Unlike many other adwares, it doesn’t install plugins in your browser that display ads every time when you browsing the internet. It also doesn’t display any ads in the game, just while it downloading. It also doesn’t send any private information somewhere, it just rotate banners. No harm to your computer, Trymedia downloaders are 100% safe.

Guys from Trymedia said, that they already contacted the developers of popular antiviruses and asked them to fix this problem. But seems like they had no responce.

Now let’s talk about some great places with tons of free games to download.

http://retrospec.sgn.net/

Retrospec is a group of enthusiasts who make games based on the old popular hits from Amiga and ZX Spectrum. These game are available for PC and Mac, and they are completely free.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/
http://abandonia.com/

These websites have a huge selection of the old games that are not selling anymore. They was developed for MS-DOS, so you need a special tool called VDMSound to run them under Microsoft Windows.

http://www.rom-world.com/

On the Rom-World you can download games for different devices (like Sega Megadrive or Super Nintendo), and play them using the emulation software, which is also available there.