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https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/gog-launches-preservation-program-for-porting-and-maintaining-good-old-games-to-modern-pcs-with-92-classic-games
DRM-free game storefront GOG, per the original announcement , recently announced a new "Preservation Program" for retro PC games that will be maintained for and playable on modern platforms. Any game in this program is considered a "Good Old Game" preserved by GOG, and GOG is largely dedicating its own resources to maintaining many of these long-abandoned titles.

The goal is to ensure that "this version is the best and most complete available anywhere, including compatibility, manuals, and other bonus content, but also DLCs and even features not present in other editions" and that you can "expect it to work on current and future popular PC configurations." GOG will even provide technical support for these games, should it still be needed, and add modern gamepad support, where applicable.

At the time of writing, this program includes 92 games, and there are plans to add more in the coming months. The catalog will be maintained for compatibility with newer hardware and operating systems and expanded over time with more games.

Uther (./2288) :
En effet je pensais surtout a Dosbox. Pour Wine il faisaient ça il y a un moment, quand ils avaient décidé de fournir un support Linux. je me souviens que j'avais acheté Baldur's Gate qui était packagé avec un wine intégré, et que ça marchait d'ailleurs pas toujours très bien.
Mais ça fait un moment que Linux n'est plus dans leur priorité. Ils ne s’embêtent même plus toujours à fournir des version Linux des jeux packagés avec Dosbox. Pour le coup pour les progrès de Wine, c'est Steam qu'il faut remercier.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/minecraft-server-made-to-run-on-pre-x86-cobol-coding-language
This week, another great milestone in the field of running Minecraft in unexpected ways has been met— this time, courtesy of the open-source CobolCraft project, we have a version of server Minecraft with most of its functionality intact that's running on GnuCOBOL, which is derived from the pre-x86 COBOL coding language initially standardized in 1968 and designed in 1959.

COBOL's roots start as a Department of Defense-funded effort to make a highly readable coding language optimized for business workloads and cross-platform, cross-architecture stability and performance. Newer languages are obviously far more powerful and diverse, but updates to COBOL over time have slowly improved this legacy language's modern usability, and CobolCraft highlights just how much can work with COBOL.

The greatest advancement in modern COBOL updates was likely in the COBOL 2002 version of the standard— per IBM's coverage, this iteration adds several object-oriented features and other "advanced programming paradigms" to the language that improve current-gen compatibility. This legacy programming language can still be seen in modern mainframes and is so popular in the private and government sectors alike that COBOL coders remained in high demand at the peak of 2020's unemployment wave.

Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a fangame built in the DooM engine, and has been in development since 1998