As platforms evolve, old games become unplayable. Open sourcing them will help us preserve them for future generations.

A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future.

I also discuss how making games open source could be beneficial to developers and companies.

Feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome, and in keeping with the open source spirit, I will give you credit if I make any edits based on your feedback.

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    7 months ago

    It’s an interesting article and I’m also starting to think more and more about game preservation.

    I don’t understand why a company like Sony wouldn’t provide you a way to play ps1-3 games on your ps5. I would even be ready to pay for it.

    There might be some technical problems I’m not seeing, but people can do it on older pc’s…

    I guess the whole video game industry has to think about preserving its own history.

    I don’t know if open sourcing games would help, but something needs to be done.

    Even playing a game like Sim City 2000 on pc is proving challenging now on Windows. I would want to play it on Linux but I can’t imagine how difficult that would be as the game isn’t even listed in Proton DB. And the VM solution would probably not work as Steam wouldn’t support something like Windows XP…

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 months ago

      PS3 in particular has very weird hardware. There aren’t any good PS3 emulators for PC. Basically the only way to play PS3 games is on an actual PS3.