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Game History and Preservation
A new NGO called Gamers' Voice has launched in the UK, focusing on game preservation. The article highlights Microsoft's discontinuation of MS-DOS support 20 years ago, while noting that some games, including a prominent roguelike, still maintain compatibility with the older operating system.
Microsoft ended MS-DOS support 20 years ago, but the latest update for the best roguelike ever made still supports it…
Despite Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS two decades ago, the roguelike game NetHack continues to support it in its latest update, showcasing the enduring legacy of the classic operating system. The game also maintains an official binary for the Amiga platform, which became extinct in 1994.
This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient…
Microsoft has released the source code for 86-DOS 1.00, a precursor to MS-DOS, on GitHub to commemorate its 45th anniversary. The code was transcribed by a team of historians led by Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini, as the original source code was not stored digitally. This effort preserves a significant piece of early computing history, including the operating system originally created by Tim Paterson for Seattle Computer Products.
