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I'd love to know more about the people working on this and their motivations. Extremely, extremely talented hackers working on open source emulation of video ga
by googlryas 4y ago
I'd love to know more about the people working on this and their motivations. Extremely, extremely talented hackers working on open source emulation of video game systems from 21 and 16 years ago.
Are they financially independent? Do they have a day job?
- sergiotapia 4y agoWhatever their motivations they are such a gift to humanity. Preserving art for generations to come, it's incredible! How many old iphone games are just completely lost now because it's a closed system?
- fordacious 4y agoThe ones I know have day jobs but many are students and contribute out of a combination of passion and a desire to learn. Often the emulator work is put to pasture when they leverage it to get hired unfortunately.
- zactato 4y agoDolphin has been around since 2003. Don’t think it’s been the same devs, but there’s definitely more commitment here than just a college side project
- Cyph0n 4y agoOne datapoint: I follow one of the devs on Twitter and he was - until very recently - a software engineer working on security infra at Google.