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It's a pretty sad trap to fall into. All of these games are doomed to fall out of support and never be played again if nobody maintains them. Consoles have emul
by Rohansi 1y ago
It's a pretty sad trap to fall into. All of these games are doomed to fall out of support and never be played again if nobody maintains them. Consoles have emulators and PC games usually just keep working but what is the solution for the mobile games worth saving?
- Someone 1y ago> Consoles have emulators All of them written by hobbyists, without support from console manufacturers, isn’t it? Is there anything that Apple does to prevent hobbyists from writing an iOS emulator? If so, do other manufacturers do better?
- Rohansi 1y agoNintendo does have their own emulators but only for a subset of games. Everything else is third party. Apple probably doesn't try to prevent iOS apps from being emulated but the fact that it's a fast moving target makes it much less practical.
- vrighter 1y agoWhy should they need maintenance? The only maintenance needed is because the OS has zero concern for backwards compatibility. What do games need? A GL/vulkan context, audio system and user input. They really don't ask for much from the OS itself. It should be able to keep working because it's still doing the same thing. It wasn't broken because it had a bug, but it was broken because Apple decided to break it (and lots of other useful, feature-complete apps). Sometimes, something is just "finished". It shouldn't need "maintaining" to keep running.
- Rohansi 1y agoI agree. It's not practical to expect apps/games to be maintained forever. People stop working on things. Studios shut down. It's another reason why I think macOS wouldn't work out as a good games platform.