First post, by keenmaster486
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What do you guys think VOGONS, DOSBox, and the retro gaming community in general will look like in 30, 40+ years? We'll all be old geezers by that point. Hopefully there will be new blood.
Maybe, just maybe, by that time DOSBox 0.75 will have been released. But I wouldn't count on it 😀
One thing I worry about is running out of old hardware. Eventually, all of the hardware will either have been crunched up in recycling or landfills, or in the hands of collectors, where it will eventually die. What are we going to do when the hardware runs out? Create our own, maybe? Then again, there's no telling what the economy's going to be like then. There could be nightmarish red tape to start something like that. We'll see, I guess.
I predict most kids who are being taught how to "code" will only know this crap:
Move the little bubbly square from here to there! Then make the little bubbly circle jump up and down! Yay!
And there will be a remnant who still use real languages (and even fewer who know assembly).
And who knows what the music is going to be like then 🙁 I'll still be listening to my precious vinyl while the rest of the culture has moved on to something stupid like, oh, I don't know, little plastic mp3 players made to look like turntables that you wear on your shirt (mark my words! it will happen sometime 😜).
Or maybe there will be a resurgence in the community, with the culture taking on the newest fad of "retrocomputing" and a whole bunch of people getting into it who probably don't know what they're doing.
Well, what do you think?
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