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by neksn 27 days ago
Closed source binaries rot.
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papichulo2023 27 days ago
It would like a month to the community to figure out the APIs and few years to decompile it... If they really want to.
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polski-g 27 days ago
Codex could do it in a weekend.
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tshaddox 27 days ago
No worse than the closed source binaries of the games themselves, surely.
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malfist 27 days ago
GOG has a whole business around making old closed source binaries run
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account42 24 days ago
Technically most of their business is in packaging existing community-developed solutions to make the games run (dosbox, scummvm, compat shims and game-speficifc patches) into a nice installer. Not that that's a useless service.
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cortesoft 27 days ago
I run a lot of closed sourced binaries that are over 30 years old.
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account42 24 days ago
False. Expectations and environments change, but if you choose to you can also keep those constant.
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