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games preservation
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2026 12:14 am
by vilmibm
this thread has a wide topic. i made it so i could link to a let's play of this cyberpunk FMV game i learned about because i came across its manual in MADE library:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghB-H18HZBY
Re: games preservation
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2026 8:05 pm
by iikorni
i’ve been reverse engineering a game from my childhood and re-implementing its engine. it is surprising how much just writing code helps in reverse engineering to understand algorithms.
the game? relatively obscure and hasn’t held up - Gubble 2
Re: games preservation
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2026 11:06 pm
by vilmibm
I HAVE PLAYED THIS
i recently loaded up an xstation with a bunch of stuff from redump....i got gubble 2 purely based on the name/cover. i absolutely could not figure out how to play.
Re: games preservation
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2026 12:00 am
by owl
i was feeling amorphous and untethered the other day and i idly watched this to feel better. incredible vibes
Re: games preservation
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2026 1:14 am
by vilmibm
it's a tonic for the cyber soul, no doubt.i recommend watching a playthrough of Burn:Cycle, too, if you haven't already.
Re: games preservation
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2026 4:50 am
by vilmibm
hey look, this strange 1992 DOS tarot card software i found at a Vintage Computer Fest years ago is finally up on the archive and
emultable!
https://archive.org/details/world_of_tarot
the most amusing thing about it, to me, is how you have to provide your own random numbers between 1 and 99999
Re: games preservation
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 5:50 pm
by fruit
I loved the ad game
Fessie räumt auf (Fessie is tidying up) as a kid, which is a boulder-dash-like by a
German garbage disposal company in which you play as a trash collecting, fire spewing dragon (with kewl Reggae kinda music playing in the background). We must have first played it around 2001-2002, and liked it so much, my sister and I even made a dumb board game version because only my dad had a PC at the time.
I just found this after a quick google search:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160826141 ... _auf_0.zip and it seems to work with wine 11.0 on my Fedora 43 Linux

- screenshot of video game 'fessie räumt auf'
- fessie.jpg (25.15 KiB) Viewed 3243 times
I'm really glad some people bothered to archive and preserve it

Re: games preservation
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 5:51 pm
by fruit
the most amusing thing about it, to me, is how you have to provide your own random numbers between 1 and 99999

im gonna pick 42
Re: games preservation
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 11:59 pm
by vilmibm
~fruit that trash pickup game is amazing....
Re: games preservation
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2026 8:13 pm
by fruit
~fruit that trash pickup game is amazing....
:) i am still at level 7 right now
also the tarot game just told me im gonna break up

(i picked 42 and 69 as random numbers

)
(it is very cool, apparently wine ships with "dosbox", so i could run it with that; the UI of world of tarot is great! i also tried selecting the "print reading" afterwards but that made it crash, would be funny if one could get an old printer and actually print it.)