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Even if the author released sources you would not get any guarantee the games can run easily. There needs to be a community that is familiar with the source and

by bzzzt 6y ago

Even if the author released sources you would not get any guarantee the games can run easily. There needs to be a community that is familiar with the source and keeps maintaining it. There are a lot of game engine like projects on Github with full code available that are anything but easily runnable on modern operating systems.

simias 6y ago
It wouldn't be a silver bullet but it would at least make it possible. See Flash for instance: I'm sure there would be enough interest to maintain a FLOSS fork of the Flash player but it's not possible without reverse-engineering it and reimplementing it from scratch.