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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

Imagine inheriting a GOG account originally registered by your great-great grandpa containing ungodly amount of games you can't possibly play all of them in a lifetime.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

All for a CPU and OS that no longer exists. Anybody got a "PC" emulator? What's a mouse?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 5 months ago

Like other mentioned, a lot of old games sold right now actually packaged with dosbox. Some even packaged with Wine so it can run on different platforms. The real problem would be emulating current modern graphic stacks but that would be future preservists' problem.

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