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I'm very happy for every web port. Old games, old OSes emulated, old apps. Please, port / emulate everything! I've recently bought one of my childhood games (Ph

by flixic 7y ago

I'm very happy for every web port. Old games, old OSes emulated, old apps. Please, port / emulate everything! I've recently bought one of my childhood games (Pharaoh, released 1999) from GOG and struggled for hours to run it in Windows without errors and glitches. Eventually had to give up. I'm quite confident that JavaScript/Web runtime will be sufficiently maintained for decades to come -- HTML websites from early 2000s run the same now as they did 20 years ago. The same can't be said for Windows runtimes. So please, port everything you can to Web. It's the best way to preserve old stuff.

Dayshine 7y ago
> HTML websites from early 2000s run the same now as they did 20 years ago. Well, apart from the tens of thousands of flash games and videos that are being killed off as we speak.
- liability 7y ago
  There is still gnash I guess, but I've not used that in many years. It's a shame Adobe didn't open source flash when they EOL'd it.
- mr-ron 7y ago
  You can still install flash right? So the flash experiences aren't getting lost necessarily. Lots of Shockwave Era stuff getting lost though I agree. Also flash games that require a server backend
  - Dayshine 7y ago
    Both Chromium and Firefox will be removing it in 2020. Once it has been removed, legacy websites hosting flash media won't really be able to fund themselves, so I imagine in the absence of a large archiving programme, we'll just lose it all.
- flixic 7y ago
  The reason why I added HTML qualifier. Closed source tech cannot be trusted to be maintained. JS/HTML can.
Crinus 7y ago
Try dgVoodoo2, 99% of the issues with older games is due to DirectX abuse that at the time happened to work. dgVoodoo2 reimplements old versions of DirectX under Direct3D 11 with very lenient handling and it is by far the best wrapper for old DirectX and Glide. Almost every game i've had issues with under Windows 10 worked just fine using it.

by flixic 7y ago

Dayshine 7y ago

> HTML websites from early 2000s run the same now as they did 20 years ago. Well, apart from the tens of thousands of flash games and videos that are being killed off as we speak.

liability 7y ago
There is still gnash I guess, but I've not used that in many years. It's a shame Adobe didn't open source flash when they EOL'd it.
mr-ron 7y ago
You can still install flash right? So the flash experiences aren't getting lost necessarily. Lots of Shockwave Era stuff getting lost though I agree. Also flash games that require a server backend
- Dayshine 7y ago
  Both Chromium and Firefox will be removing it in 2020. Once it has been removed, legacy websites hosting flash media won't really be able to fund themselves, so I imagine in the absence of a large archiving programme, we'll just lose it all.
flixic 7y ago
The reason why I added HTML qualifier. Closed source tech cannot be trusted to be maintained. JS/HTML can.

Crinus 7y ago

Try dgVoodoo2, 99% of the issues with older games is due to DirectX abuse that at the time happened to work. dgVoodoo2 reimplements old versions of DirectX under Direct3D 11 with very lenient handling and it is by far the best wrapper for old DirectX and Glide. Almost every game i've had issues with under Windows 10 worked just fine using it.