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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] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's not simple or easy to spin up a VM that will run indie games from 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I guess that depends who you ask. I emulate games all the time. Just takes a little bit of willingness to learn something new.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No, it takes time to spin up a VM that will run PC games from a bygone era using an old version of Windows. We're talking minutes from the time you click the VM until you can run the game, compared to seconds on a native executable. It's one method, sure, but it's not ideal. It's definitely not simpler or better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Emulation is the least amount of work for all involved. If some poor guy is to spend weeks or months of his time porting a game it better be worth the investment. Porting should only be done for games that are completely broken and can't run in a VM or emulator.

It takes less than 30 minutes to setup a Windows or Linux VM.

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