GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released'

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 1 month ago

everett · 1 month ago

GOG say the GOG Preservation Program is currently Windows-only

Technotica@lemmy.world · edit-2 1 month ago

How does that work? Almost all old Windows games can be played on Linux with Wine or Dosbox?

onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 1 month ago

Of course they can be played on Linux. I believe they mean that there won’t be “official” support for anything besides Windows.

Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip · 1 month ago

its not that they dont work on linux, its morelikely they just dont test for it.