Cloanto, the company that owns the rights to the Commodore Amiga line, have a legal emulator that they sell called Amiga Forever. It’s about half the price of one modern AAA game, and when you download it, it comes with about fifty games of varying notability, and there’s many times more you can just install and play. And it’s all legal.

I would love this to be the industry norm, imagine being able to download a NES! It’s annoying that if we want future generations to be able to experience games of the past (whether to learn from them, or just for pleasure) we need to teach our children about piracy.

If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.

No experience with it, but…

• Founded in 2018
• Copyright date says 2020
• Still says “Join as a Founder!” in 2023
• Appears to be tied up in crypto nonsense

Signs point to untrustworthy.

Being (briefly) 9th in the world at Unreal Tournament. :)

You appear to be missing an arm. Here, take this one instead: \

If you’re dead set on getting a PS3, check eBay. You’ll probably get change from $100 at current prices.

Needs more usernames in the bottom-right corner. /joke

Oh no, not again.

“Would you kill 1 person or double it and give it to the next person?” Looks like if we all do nothing the trolley will just keep rolling without incident. We should all knock off, untie everyone, and go have lunch.

Yeah, the 1s and 0s are stored on archive.org, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to play them.

Someone please please correct me if I’m wrong. I’d put a bounty on this and pay… *checks pockets* …an empty chewing gum wrapper and a used bus ticket?

Yeah! Skyrim is like watching a movie. Morrowind is like reading a book. They’re amazingly different experiences. :)

I do. I had two games on there that I haven’t been able to find since.

• A silly game called Office DisOrders which was basically an early visual novel about busywork
• A jigsaw game which I seem to recall is called Square Jigsaw (or something?) that had a really cool feature I haven’t seen before or since - fractal jigsaws. You could do really huge jigsaws quite easily with that, it’d break larger puzzles down into smaller jigsaw-piece-shaped puzzles, then after you’d completed each of those puzzles, you’d assemble them into the final image.

Ancient Domains of Mystery is really really good if you can get into it. It’s available on Steam, but you can get the free version which is identical except for the UI from https://adom.de/

Oh wow, I vaguely remember a misspent childhood on MUDs and MUCKs. I wonder if any of them are still going…

See also [email protected] :)

Gods, yes, someone please do this.

Overcooked and Moving Out are my go-to couch games. Bomb Squad from one of the Jackbox Party Packs (I forget which one) is really fun too!

I just tested it and it turns out notes do sync.

Not so sure about the UI overhaul, but I do like the notes feature. I can see it being a very handy way for me to remember what I’m doing, especially if it syncs between my desktop and my Steam Deck.

It doesn’t feel ready for mass adoption.

The difficulty of finding subredditscommunities is a problem. And, when you do find one, nine times out of ten the link you click takes you to a different Lemmy server, from which you cannot join the community.

And then there’s the problem of fragmentation and duplication, which has been explained better by other users on this thread.

There are lots of little problems here and there, like the language defaulting to “Undetermined” which hides your post from everyone who just naively selected English.

Fortunately, I’m (reasonably) technically-competent so I can make it work for me, and I recognise that even getting this far with development is a massive achievement. But I’m pretty sure the average internet user isn’t going to stick around until the project’s a bit more polished and mature.