• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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      13 days ago

      You can play DOS games just fine right now, so yes it’s a good bet. And a far better bet than the PS6 being backwards compatible.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        The crazy thing for me is that I have a little handheld specific for dos games. The problem I run into every time is having to setup computer keyboard bindings for each game to play them using the built-in controller. I really want retroarch or another dos emulator to do profiles for different games and I haven’t seen that yet.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Unless they change CPU architectures.

      And even then it’s no guarantee. Plenty of games needed support from the likes of GoG to run. Hell, I couldn’t even play Ex Machina because I had a HDR monitor and the game detected that and completely broke. Disabling HDR in Windows did nothing.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        13 days ago

        Ex Machina the movie or the 1984 “game”? That’s before Mario was even a thing.

              • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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                13 days ago

                That doesn’t make any sense. I can play multiple games from 2017 with no problem at all. I play games from 2012 and up just fine too. That’s something the devs messed up for that specific game, or it’s a problem with your PC.

                • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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                  13 days ago

                  I have a hard time believing HDR wasn’t around in 2017 in some capacity. This sounds like a big that existed on launch, yeah?

      • TheYang@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Unless they change CPU architectures.

        well. there’s already winlator (basically box86 / wine-wrapper for android).
        Not as polished and far as Proton is, but the bones are there.

        A CPU architecture change wouldn’t be a deathblow.