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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by thedudemabry on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:52AM (#19808501)
Agreed. As a former MS-focused engineer in a previous life, I was constantly surprised by how many executables just continued to work 20 years after authorship. It's a different set of tradeoffs than other OSs have made, but a really remarkable one.
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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by magpi3 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:09AM (#19808672)
Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows.
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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by wolfgke on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:22AM (#19808812)
> Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows.

Many old games that GOG distributes are not written for Windows, but for DOS.

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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by pcwalton on Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:20PM (#19813083)
Through emulation (DOSBox), in many cases.
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