I mean non-interactive content can be easily reproduced, paintings, videos, sounds, but for software and hardware, its planned to fail in the future, why is that hard to replicate to work on newer systems unlike photos, sounds, and other stuff?
All of those other media that you mention can and will also eventually fail and, in many cases, require specialized equipment for their consumption. Also, don't forget that the so-called "easy reproduction" for non-interactive media was in its time a revolution in its own right, like the invention of a printing press, various photographic processes, audio recording and, eventually, moving pictures, not to mention the historically recentmost industrial achievents in these areas. The question of whether it's that hard to get old software to work on newer systems is a bit moot in the context of you being the final consumer only, I presume. Old software gets routinely ported and re-released to run on newer systems, but it's a work requiring certain skills and knowledge, just like an offset printing press requires some too to get it running.
wrote:I mean non-interactive content can be easily reproduced, paintings, videos, sounds, but for software and hardware, its planned to fail in the future, why is that hard to replicate to work on newer systems unlike photos, sounds, and other stuff?
Ever heard of DOSBOX?
What about PCEM?
What about x86 Box?
those are somewhat bandages, for orphaned works, yea that sucks if a great orphaned work gets left behind, its our duty to make sure it doesnt get left behind!
wrote:those are somewhat bandages, for orphaned works, yea that sucks if a great orphaned work gets left behind, its our duty to make sure it doesnt get left behind!
Are you going to somehow get the source code and recode and recompile the old software so it will run on new systems?
what can we do, but petition the rights holders, I mean at first i thought thats what Night Dive Studios is doing, only now I realize that it's more work than they thought.
wrote:wrote:those are somewhat bandages, for orphaned works, yea that sucks if a great orphaned work gets left behind, its our duty to make sure it doesnt get left behind!
Are you going to somehow get the source code and recode and recompile the old software so it will run on new systems?
I mean licensed software is out of the question, no way can we get that working again... Shovelware also yuck.. I dont know how many games I threw out or gave away because they no longer worked on my system.
Guess you shoulda kept them. I still have the trapezoid boxed copy of Final Fantasy VII for PC that I pre-ordered.
I did trade in some of the games I bought back then but I also kept the ones I really liked.
Source code is never going to happen for most old games. Just the way it is.
There have been remakes of some games such as Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The backend was completely re-written from scratch. All you need are the original asset files.
