It's the same reason Nintendo makes money reselling games from 5-10 years ago - there was nothing wrong with the software (from a standalone, I want to play thi

It's the same reason Nintendo makes money reselling games from 5-10 years ago - there was nothing wrong with the software (from a standalone, I want to play this game or this movie, perspective). Yeah sure you can dig through lots of specialized software and hardware to do software museum "curation", if you will, but this isn't a case of emulatimg DOS games or what not - those work. The sucessor to flash's animation software, well it doesn't exist, not even with all html's fancy css and js frameworks. And I say that knowing there is some impressive stuff done in JS. It's a bit like if we all decided, nope, C++ is illegal now, gotta do everything in rust, except now decades of work just can't be compiled anymore... I can still go out and compile old c programs on really old operating systems even on modern systems - these are working programs which simply no longer function, and the replacement efforts have no major steam behind them. Arguably for good reason, the old stuff did really suck and HTML was better for a bit (it sucks again already), but these are perfectly good pieces of art that just no longer function.