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"Every game is an archaeological expedition." How SNEG preserves gaming's fragile past

Gaming has a memory problem, and I don't just mean the price of RAM. While the 0s and 1s that make up game code are immortal, there are any number of barriers preventing modern gamers from playing old games, from incompatibility with modern hardware to rights disputes that leave games trapped in unpublishable limbo. On...

Gaming has a memory problem, and I don't just mean the price of RAM. While the 0s and 1s that make up game code are immortal, there are any number of barriers preventing modern gamers from playing old games, from incompatibility with modern hardware to rights disputes that leave games trapped in unpublishable limbo. One [...]

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