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Originally Posted by orionsun
What is the common thread in all those games(besides the fact they arent computer games)? They are all multiplayer... unless you play chess by yourself.
They aren't archiving stuff for a few years, they want to keep things for generations. When was the last time you played The Oregon Trail? We all loved that as a kid but nobody has an apple IIe anymore, luckily it is small enough it has been ported to other systems but there was also financial incentive to do so.
Even ignoring the fact that in 50 years the client won't be compatible with current operating systems, where are you going to legally obtain an EQ titanium client in 2050?
Anymore strawmen on the farm?
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Emulators and Virtual machines = win
not too long ago I pined for starcontrol2, and i was like welll.....I can choose to do it in an emu OR a VM, I went with a VM of course (better than LLE emulators by far, but not HLE emus)
The future of computing is in VMs anyways
there are also emulators..
A friend of mine liked his apple games from "back in teh day" so he acquired an apple emulator, hooked up some game images he got from teh same place, and went to town on the "good ole" piece of crap apple games from "back in teh day" that he he loved so much
some emus have netwrok connectivity, and almost all VMs allow for passthrough of devices, device emulation, and other tricks in order to use the "system" the "way it was intended".
What this means is that in 50 years, while there won't be anyone natively using whatever ancient technology we are using right now will be called... we will be able to tunnel all of the traffic through the new network system using VM managers and other stuff - and yes VMs can be run inside of VMs - right now it isnt a good idea performance-wise, but computing power is getting so cheap that it will just be a "bad config that works anyways" as opposed to "a bad config that barely works"
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