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I want to buy a 4TB external drive, with the sole motivation to "preserve" as many games as I possibly can. I know it's not enough, but I want to save my fav games before they're completely gone from the internet.

I could do that, but then what if the Operating Systems go to shit? What if Windows rolls out an update, where you can't run .exe files anymore? Everything has to be installed and run from the Microsoft Store? What if an "online-only" version of Windows gets released and all previous versions get removed?

I know duh, get the Windows 10 cracked iso file as well. But it just depresses me, looking at the hoops I have to jump if all I want to do is enjoy older games.

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    That's actually a good idea, but you need to have a VM doing all that, or make often a full image of your computer. Maybe just keep your computer forever.

    It's a dark time regarding that indeed. Soon, you'll have to behave very nice while gaming, else you'll lose your 50,- euro game or something. It's ok, it's all in the agreement you signed with a click :P

    I'm sure you're not the only one thinking about this and solutions will come.

    Also, a solution could be, to upgrade from gaming to C/python development. I hear good things about it.
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    so your question is basically "what if [absurdly unlikely worst-case disaster happens where some old games are literally the least of your problems]"
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    @German Normii The Win32 API is at present 32 years old and it shows its age. I'd be very surprised if old graphics accelerator APIs still worked the same, and weren't reimplemented in terms of newer APIs that dictate different choices of UB, which in turn broke a bunch of games each time it happened, because game development is a notoriously hacky process rife with dependence on unspecified but nonetheless present environmental factors.
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    The terror is real. I have the source code for Seven Kingdoms saved up so I could compile and play it whenever I felt like it. It was originally for windows, but someone got it to work on arch, I can't remember how they did this exactly.

    Anyway, the binary I already had stopped working like two or three months ago, right after an update, trying to recompile it fails, and I'm still not sure how to fix it. Fuck meeeeeeeeeeee!
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    @r.ded That or just use wine ;P. Also look at you still thinking games are 50 bucks, they're trying to make 80 standard and too many are 70 already. Do you know there is netflix for games already?

    Though if more (game) devs knew C there would be less need for super expensive parts just so you can run "modern" games

    @ostream last I heard for older games wine even outperforms native windows

    @Liebranca on linux or windows?
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