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European petition to preserve video games (eci.ec.europa.eu)

submitted 3 months ago by trougnouf to c/retrogaming

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European petition to preserve video games, please sign 👾

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How do you leave it in a "functionable state"? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, os' update or die off, etc. You'd have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer I'd want nothing to do with that market then.

[–] trougnouf 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I can still run Blade Runner which came out in 1997 using Wine, things don't die off that easily when they are not broken on purpose.

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