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Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time (www.404media.co)

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Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is such important work, but large gaming companies now seem to want games to stop working so people will move to the next thing. That's one of the hidden business interests on tying everything to online services.

I do hope we can still manage to maintain compatibility using emulators, virtual machines and compatibility layers. Digital media is so trivial to copy and store that letting it be lost can only happen due to complete neglect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget your remaster/remakes releases