First post, by twiz11
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I mean most of the games today would never have worked without DOSBox or the source code, and frankly not a lot of publishers release the source code to games because of the right to be forgotten and also planned obsolescence. The fact is that DOSBox makes new games not worth buying or playing because the experience is exactly the same, for example first person shooters. To deathmatch back then is to deathmatch today, the same thing get many points, I mean for example doom, people are hacking and modding doom to do things more than the new doom today and its like you bought a cheap game then all the mods that came with it which was a pretty good deal, and people did the work for free so it was a cost saving measure. I think releasing the source code has contributed more to the community than DOSBox ever has, and I think without DOSBox I think more publishers would have contracted with a developer to develop source ports for great games and I think we would all benefit. Especially for Blood, who Atari will never release source code because of DOSBox. if there was no DOSBox I think it would have forced them to make a source port for purchase, otherwise they would have lost the trademark Blood. Atari profits off of free work because there is no incentive to actually do work and that is why they went bankrupt numerous times