In the computer industry, vaporware (or vapourware) is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but...
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Vaporware is a product, usually software, which has been announced and is long in development, but has not yet been released and not been officially cancelled...
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discontinued web browser for the Amiga range of computers, developed by VaporWare. Voyager supports HTML 3.2 and some HTML 4, JavaScript, frames, SSL, Flash...
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Half-Life 2: Episode Three (category Vaporware video games)
Episode Three over the following years, and in 2011 Wired described it as vaporware. Valve eventually canceled it, citing a lack of direction and the limitations...
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announcement during April 1997, leading to its being named as a piece of vaporware. Initial development had begun at 3D Realms, but in 2009, 3D Realms was...
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taking place in South America. It was never released and is now considered vaporware due to NovaLogic's closure in 2016. Delta Force: Hawk Ops was announced...
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Panther, noted "It's strange to have gone from years of uncertainty and vaporware to a steady annual supply of major new operating system releases." Version...
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game. However, due to the delays some considered S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to be vaporware. In late December 2003, a pre-alpha build of the game was leaked to peer-to-peer...
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scope, and poor development time management. In the computer industry, vaporware is the term for a product, typically computer hardware or software, that...
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The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979...
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Wild (video game) (category Vaporware video games)
director Michel Ancel retired from the game industry in 2020, making it a vaporware game. Wild is set during the prehistoric Neolithic period in a procedurally...
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six years, Team Fortress 2 regularly featured in Wired News's annual vaporware list among other entries. Finally released on the Source game engine in...
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the industry's first widely publicized and "most notorious" example of vaporware. Wierzbicki, Barbara (1983-11-07). "Ovation integrates five applications"...
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series. Intended to be groundbreaking, it became an infamous example of vaporware due to its severely protracted development schedule. Director George Broussard...
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November 2021, James Grimmelmann of Cornell University referred to Web3 as vaporware, calling it "a promised future internet that fixes all the things people...
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VAC ban are sometimes referred to as going on a "permanent VACation". vaporware Video games which are announced and appear in active development for some...
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Phantom Entertainment (category Vaporware game consoles)
demand in 2004; it was never marketed, leading to suggestions that it was vaporware. The company's website was last updated in late 2011. Infinium Labs was...
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Dan Mason create vaporwave music from scratch. The name derives from "vaporware", a term for commercial software that is announced but never released...
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the end of 2007. The keyboard was number 10 in the Wired Magazine 2006 Vaporware Awards and number 4 on the list in 2007 due to its numerous delays and...
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announcement and its release were protracted enough to attract use of the term "vaporware" by some, and upon its 2008 release, found itself subject to harsh criticism...
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List of media notable for being in development hell (category Vaporware video games)
cancelled, a state known as "development hell", or, in the software industry, vaporware. 1906: A film based on the 2004 historical novel was planned as early...
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1999. On March 2, 1999, in what one report called a "highly publicized, vaporware-like announcement", Sony revealed the first details of the PlayStation...
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information in the following years, and in 2011 Wired described it as vaporware. Valve eventually abandoned episodic development, as they wanted to create...
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October 17, 1990. Retrieved March 16, 2021. Poole, Stephen (1996). "Vaporware Hall of Shame". GameSpot. Archived from the original on February 5, 1997...
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Atari 8-bit computer peripherals include floppy drives, printers, modems, and video game controllers for Atari 8-bit computers, which includes the 400/800...
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StarCraft: Ghost (category Vaporware video games)
continued delay of Ghost caused it to be labeled vaporware, and it was ranked fifth in Wired News' annual Vaporware Awards in 2005. In 2014, Blizzard president...
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and communication from von Funck, with many considering the game to be vaporware until he officially released it on September 30, 2019. In Cube World,...
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the term crowdsourcing, as well as its annual tradition of handing out Vaporware Awards, which recognize "products, videogames, and other nerdy tidbits...
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hell, or have been put on indefinite hold. They may be also deemed as vaporware due to the above reasons. The calendar year is divided into four quarters...
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