A sizable portion of video game history is going to be rendered inaccessible to the average user within the next few years:<\/p>\n
According to Eweek, Windows Vista will not be able to run 16-bit programs,<\/a> so Windows 3.1 programs, and many DOS programs (most? all?) will cease to work once you install upgrade to Vista.<\/p>\n Apple’s switch to Intel chips also means the end of OS 9 support<\/a>, so all your pre-2001 Mac games are not going to work anymore.<\/p>\n We will still be able to play old games in the future by running various emulators and virtual machines, but it will be out of reach for most users.<\/p>\n 11 years from the release of Windows’95 to not supporting Windows 3.1 is a very short time in culture, but 5 years from the release of OSX to not supporting OS9 is the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n These are corporate decisions that could be reversed. Somebody should stage a campaign. Any takers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A sizable portion of video game history is going to be rendered inaccessible to the average user within the next few years: According to Eweek, Windows Vista will not be able to run 16-bit programs, so Windows 3.1 programs, and many DOS programs (most? all?) will cease to work once you install upgrade to Vista. … Continue reading “Windows Vista and OSX Intel: Threats to Gaming History”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}