Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20190227222254

All for a good cause, of course - we benefit greatly from this accreditation, so we surely want ot keep it...

It seems many developers were betrayed by their own success. Even id Software felt it - all the original members left, one by one. Even Carmack departed eventually, something many fans would have considered impossible. We also have 3D Realms who got really drunk on their success with Duke Nukem 3D... leading into the legendary DN Forever fiasco. Over the last few years even a titan like Blizzard has started to really mess up and anger its most devoted fans. Success can be treacherous indeed.

Just today there was a little argument about whether it was okay to get a certain game from an abandonware site. The game in question sokld poorly back in its day, we never really popular, and the company that made/distributed it is long dead and gone. So I thought it weird to defend a copyright that became irrelevant 20 years ago.

Could flash drives be replaced by something else eventually? Some sci-fi movies/series had data crystals.

Since DOS games aren't quite them ain focus of Steam, I doubt they'd hire someone more knowledgeable to take care of these packages. As generations change, a knowledge gap develops. At first I was quite shocked to see people sincerely wondering why some DOS game won't run on Windows 10... but then I realized that they haven't grown up with this tech, they barely know anything about it. And thus they can't reason that DOS support has been pretty rudimentary since Windows NT 4.0, not to mention that these programs are all 16-bit and impossible to run on as 64-bit OS anyway.

One difference that is often encountered is censoring Nazi-related stuff in European releases, so that they can be sold in Germany. I think this ban was lifted a while ago, though. Under certain conditions, of course, I don't think they'd allow a game that praises Nazis.

Who knows... there could be people suitable for us out there. They'd probably be hopeless nerds too, heh. If a woman can set up a Win 95 without using any help, she's definitely someone I'd be interested in :P

Amazingly, last night was really smooth. I fell asleep and didn't wake up even once until the alarm went off. It's a little sad that these nights are slowly becoming the exception.