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How to play old CD-ROM games on a modern Windows PC (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago

The sheer amount of finagling required to get older games working on modern Windows is a big reason why projects like ExoDOS and ExoWin9x are so important for game preservation.

Getting these games to play from their original media is only going to get harder over time; eventually, playing archived/preserved digital versions will be the only way to experience them.