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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    So?

    Emulate.

    As long as the application doesn’t rely on something external like a server that no longer exists, it can always be run.

    This isn’t about a hardware system changing. If you can either find the original hardware or simulate it, it should run. Not just go “expiry date passed, fuck you”.

    You’re saying it can sometimes be practically impossible. That doesn’t mean it has to theoretically and actually impossible, too.

    • DeadDigger@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      Well then pls get me an emulator for GamePark GP2X pls? Come on it isn’t even 20 years old.

      This is a very entitled take in my opinion, by all means. Further it shows me that you never wrote an emulator nor that you can even fathom how hard emulation actually is. All software that you use relies on external systems mostly your hardware and your operating system. Recreating both is extremely hard and time consuming so it is mostly done due to personal involvement and nostalgia. Both of which will not happen for something like python that is mostly used by scientists to cobble together c libraries.

      Without an os or hardware even an open source project will not be able to run. And this even ignores that emulators often don’t even run the software the same way so you are not really playing the same game.

      I answered a very very very polemic and populistic take and didn’t even say anything about how closed or open source code should be or how accessible software should be that is just what you interpreted into what I wrote.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        So what is it you actually wanted to add?

        If you aren’t bringing up practical difficulty to argue in favor of theoretical impossibility, what are you adding?

        How is difficulty relevant in the face of the importance of preservation?

        As for python… What?

        Why would you emulate for python, when what actually happens is that new interpreters get written? It already runs across several operating systems and processing architectures thanks to interpreters existing for each one.

        Python isn’t some hobby language anymore. Far too much serious infrastructure uses it for future interpreters not to get made.