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ExoDOS 6.0 (www.retro-exo.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This collection looks absolutely amazing, and must have taken a bunch of work to collect.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Technically this is not preservation in any academic sense, since all the games are modified to not need installing and to work from the launcher.

[–] [email protected]:443 1 points 8 months ago

I wasn't aware that we needed to adhere to the academic sense here on fedi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It’s absolutely preservation in use in an academic sense, just not following best practices for archival of the original data.