Roms would be more about old video games.
There is one named RetroTorrents but that is mostly a quiet community.
Would retro content also be related to music and movies?
Good question... Maybe, though I don't know much about old music or movies.
When people think retro, it’s almost always 8/16/32 bit emulation. You could maths share the focus around by putting just as much focus in retro computer piracy.
Dos, win9x, Amiga, c64. Of course, you need contributors that can provide content to that effect.
I recently showed someone how to quickly get an older PC Lego racing game working on Linux. They tried and had trouble, I spent about 15 minutes from finding an iso to in-game and racing. So the content must be out there from someone?
This echoes my thoughts... Even simple question/answer to help others get old games working, useful links to emulation resources for older platforms etc.
With steam deck popularity, a new wave of inexperienced folks wanting to try things is guaranteed.
Remove rule 3?
Maybe? But I can't imagine that would be particularly healthy for the site for legal reasons. I'm thinking maybe trying to do a biweekly to monthly feed of recently dumped ROMs and related media would be nice? Though admittedly I'm not sure how well I'd be able to keep up with doing that.
Focus on emulating old devices?
Feature a game or utility or OS of the day/week, with commentary on it?
To set the flavor of what you want in the /c, subject to change, pending what the contributors actually want instead...
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