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Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time (www.404media.co)
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Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”

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[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Emulation is the least amount of work for all involved. If some poor guy is to spend weeks or months of his time porting a game it better be worth the investment. Porting should only be done for games that are completely broken and can't run in a VM or emulator.

It takes less than 30 minutes to setup a Windows or Linux VM.