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Internet Archive can emulate games and old software. (archive.org)

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!textfiles@mastodon.archive.org - A silly milestone we passed sometime this year: The Internet Archive now emulates (to various degrees, of course), over 250,000 pieces of software, hardware, and electronics, thanks to the effort of a dozen emulation projects and all of them running in the browser. Live again, ancient software!

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[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 117 points 1 year ago

Headline is wrong. Internet archive has been emulating software for a long time now.

Maybe they just got to 250k titles, but them emulating is not new.

[-] ink@r.nf 13 points 1 year ago

yea. it already had more than 2000 MS DOS games back in 2015

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