retrowareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• enPR: rĕt′rō-wâr′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊˌwɛə/, /-ˌwɛː/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊˌwɛɹ/

  (General American) IPA: /-ˌweɹ/

• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɹet.ɹəʉˌweː/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɹet.ɹəʉˌweə̯/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoˌweɹ/
• (India) IPA: /ˈɾɛʈ.ɾoːˌwɛːʳ/
• 韻: -ɛtɹəʊwɛə, -ɛtɹəʊwɛː
• ハイフネーション: ret‧ro‧ware

名詞

retroware (usually uncountable, plural (nonstandard) retrowares)

1. (computing, informal, programming, software) Old software/hardware.
   • 1995 June 28, Rob Pegoraro, “Behind the Screens”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 2025-05-22:

     Microsoft itself has shown only two games for Win 95: Fury3, a Descent-like flight sim, and Return of Arcade, another retroware disk.

   • 2000 March 10, “Other voices”, in The Houston Chronicle:

     The March issue of Wired looks at retroware, the growing use of older computers, in an article by Mark Frauenfelder titled “Never Say Die”.

   • 2005 February 27, David, “Input=ESC/P2; Output=tiff... Any drivers/software?”, in comp.periphs.printers‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2025-05-22:

     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.

参考

Further reading

• “retroware”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.