The decline of emulation... the loss of history

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

Mikuro, thank you. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Another issue is with the users. Most of them are not willing to pay for the ability to keep on going and the developper looses interest in keeping it up to date as certainly he does not profit from it.


Good luck, Kees

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally Posted by Kees Buijs

Most of them are not willing to pay for the ability to keep on going and the developper looses interest in keeping it up to date as certainly he does not profit from it.

Precisely the reason it's impossible to find gas stations that sell leaded gas (not to mention it's illegal now, but even if it weren't, no car produced today runs on leaded gas in the US).

It's forward-momentum -- either get on board or be left behind. Technologies become dated after a while, and just because the thing on your desk in 1986 was called a "computer" and the brand-spankin' new Mac Pro on your desk 20 years later is also called a "computer" does not implicitly suggest any kind of compatibility between the two.