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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

eventually there'll be some breaking operating system or hardware change that will force the use of a virtual machine, compatibility software, or other types of emulation to keep playing.

I still can play Unreal from 1998 on modern Linux. Faust bless Torvalds and his "never break userspace".