The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever
The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever
GOG commits its own resources to maintain classic titles playable, now and in the future. We are launching the program with 100 games and will add more in the next few months.
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I just hope they will also provide the unmodified versions for people that want to play them on original hardware.
At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.
Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.
7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it's not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.
Off the top of my head I can think of:
- Black&White
- The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
- the original Starcraft and Warcraft
- Pharaoh
- Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS "clone" exists)
- Evolva
- Syndicate
I could go on forever...
Don't they just slap a custom configured dosbox in the folder and point to it for launch? Could just strip out dosbox and have the thing.