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  • perfectly tuned for it… for how long though?

    Perfectly tuned forever, just keep the game bundled with the same emulator.

    If eventually the system that the emulator runs on diverges too far from what the emulator was able to run on, then wrap it in another emulator to emulate that. Or just update the emulator, DOSBox is under the GPL.

    How many indie titles on PC aged out of the platform and have no maintainer?

    If you have an emulator then you don’t need a maintainer. As far as the game is concerned it’s still running on the exact same computer that it did when it was first released.

    A person who purchased Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for PC would be unable to launch the game in any modern OS. But if they have it on PS1, it still works.

    They’d need a PS1 emulator for that. DuckStation, for example.

    A person who purchased Minecraft in 2011 can no longer play that game on the same computer they purchased it from.

    The newer versions of Minecraft can’t. The old version they purchased in 2011 still can because it hasn’t changed.

    I’m saying PC is a moving platform.

    And I’m pointing out that an emulator need not be a moving platform. It can be a frozen snapshot of a particular moment in time. Get a game working on an emulator and you can freeze that emulator’s code and configuration and then you’ll know that the game will always work on it from then onward. Bundle the emulator with the game, like GOG does, and there’s no “fiddling around” - you can indeed just sit down and play it.


  • You can swap out their dosbox.exe with a version that includes CRT shaders, such as DOSBox Staging or DOSBox-X.

    Or you could wrap the existing DOSBox window in an external shader using ReShade, it’s a universal post-processing injector that can add a CRT filter. That way the emulator they wrap the game in remains untouched, you’re just modifying the visual output.

    My search also found all-in-one frontends called ExoDOS and LaunchBox/RetroArch to do this to a whole library of GOG games so that you don’t have to do it individually to each.



  • Even completely disregarding the cryptocurrency angle, “content that harms the reputation of Codeberg” is wide open to all sorts of future arbitrary interpretation. It basically means “if a lot of people dislike your project we nuke it.” Who knows when a lot of people are going to end up disliking your project? Who decides which people’s opinion matter to Codeberg’s reputation? And it’s something that can change at any time.

    Maybe some open-source Fediverse server’s code is being hosted on Codeberg, and then one day some big news story breaks about how it was being used as the server for some big child porn distribution ring or something like that. The server’s name is showing up in news articles about this. Does it now “harm Codeberg’s reputation” for it to continue being hosted there? Boom, gone. Through no action or intent by the server’s authors, through nothing they could control or anticipate.





  • Yeah, only “cryptobros” could be upset about an open source hosting site deciding to officially ban “anything they think makes them look bad”, and using an entire field of software development as an example apparently based on the popular misconception that it’s a scam. This certainly isn’t a sign that any other projects could abruptly find themselves on the wrong side of someone’s opinion of whether they’re “bad” someday.


  • You pruned off the last part of the sentence in what you quoted: “which makes it seem like cryptocurrency is inherently scammy.” Adds a bit of important context.

    The interpretation that cryptocurrency projects are “harmful” is based on a popular position that misunderstands the nature of cryptocurrency and its full range of uses.

    Your obsession with stalking me keeps leading you to pouncing on comments with an “aha! Got him!” That leads you to misinterpret them in the worst possible light. Which is quite ironic given the situation this thread is actually about.


  • That’s not correct, and you should know better than to claim this.

    This is my first exposure to Codeberg’s terms of service, why would you think I know more than what I’m seeing here and in the linked pages? I haven’t used them before (and almost certainly won’t now).

    The text you quoted from my earlier comment has nothing to do with any of this, either. I’m not sure why you think it means anything in this context.

    AI is wildly popular.

    Wow. I’d ask whether you’ve ever been in any threads on this community about LLMs, but of course I’ve come to recognize your particular username fairly well at this point.