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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

Imagine inheriting a GOG account originally registered by your great-great grandpa containing ungodly amount of games you can't possibly play all of them in a lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All for a CPU and OS that no longer exists. Anybody got a "PC" emulator? What's a mouse?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There is VM software like VirtualBox you can use the run older versions of Windows. I’ve had better experience running old games through Windows XP in VirtualBox than directly on Windows 10.

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