The future of abandonware
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Ultima Revived
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Old games that people still want to play but companies no longer sell and support often end up being traded as abandonware, often requiring emulators to avoid compatibility issues.
By giving or selling the license to smaller independent "bargain" developers, the game can be kept alive and updated to run on new computers.
Of course, updating the game's graphics and gameplay in "revivals" like these would be possible as well.
Regarding atmospheric conditions on Mars and other planets, does anyone know why storms often seem to be global events? I don't think a global storm happened on earth recently, but other planets seem to have them all the time.
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Old games that people still want to play but companies no longer sell and support often end up being traded as abandonware, often requiring emulators to avoid compatibility issues.
By giving or selling the license to smaller independent "bargain" developers, the game can be kept alive and updated to run on new computers.
Of course, updating the game's graphics and gameplay in "revivals" like these would be possible as well.
Regarding atmospheric conditions on Mars and other planets, does anyone know why storms often seem to be global events? I don't think a global storm happened on earth recently, but other planets seem to have them all the time.
Slashdot ran the part about Ultima on Sep 19, here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/19/124422 1&mode=nested
Check out the comments that were made back then.