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Closed source binaries rot.
by neksn 5mo ago
Closed source binaries rot.
- tshaddox 5mo agoNo worse than the closed source binaries of the games themselves, surely.
- papichulo2023 5mo agoIt would like a month to the community to figure out the APIs and few years to decompile it... If they really want to.
- polski-g 5mo agoCodex could do it in a weekend.
- malfist 5mo agoGOG has a whole business around making old closed source binaries run
- account42 5mo agoTechnically most of their business is in packaging existing community-developed solutions to make the games run (dosbox, scummvm, compat shims and game-speficifc patches) into a nice installer. Not that that's a useless service.
- cortesoft 5mo agoI run a lot of closed sourced binaries that are over 30 years old.
- account42 5mo agoFalse. Expectations and environments change, but if you choose to you can also keep those constant.