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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Ufotable (section Vaporware)
    Ufotable, Inc. (Japanese: ユーフォーテーブル有限会社, Hepburn: Yūfōtēburu yūgen-gaisha) is a Japanese animation studio founded in October 2000 by former Telecom Animation...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    the production of short-lived software products often denominated as vaporware. Hackathons have been equally criticized for their failure to contemplate...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    intellectual property called Alan Wake. This title was once suspected to be vaporware because of the length of time it took to produce and release. It gained...
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    game in a consulting role for a while. The game was commonly regarded as vaporware due to its promised release date of 2001; however, it was eventually released...
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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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  • (November 1996). "15 Top Vaporware Titles in Computer Game History". Computer Gaming World. No. 148. p. 130. Poole, Stephen. "Vaporware Hall of Shame". GameSpot...
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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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  • projected deadlines, the media began to suggest that the game may become vaporware and might never be released. Many of these delays were blamed on micromanagement...
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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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  • 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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