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European petition to preserve video games (eci.ec.europa.eu)
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European petition to preserve video games, please sign 👾

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

It's just about not intentionally breaking stuff.

[-] trougnouf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 years ago

You'd have to expose the source code to the public

Good.

I'd want nothing to do with that market then

With that attitude, also good.

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