/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1105358

I played Prince of Persia last week on DosBox and it hasn't aged badly one bit.

It's still precise, responsive, mysterious, atmospheric and tough.

I think prince of persia is the frank sinatra of PC games.

polite sage for off topic on PoP

>>970569

Pretty much every single iOS and Android game is eventually a lost game.

As a developer myself, we are pretty sure nobody has v1.0 of our game anymore. And I'd have to research our archives to find it ourselves.

Something's pretty weird about current platforms.

You don't have JUST the game, but it exists in as combination itself and the platform's OS. This leads not only makes testing way more complex (you have to do a cartesian-product-combination-type multiplied testing), but makes preserving actual versions of the game quite hard.

I myself have a "snapshots" folder for all our projects, which is horrifyingly huge (a 300mb game can have a 5gb snapshot folder), but most of these don't work anymore.

It's terrible, but due to DRM, DLC and software updates, conserving a platform and it's games has nowadays become pretty much an imposibilty.

The best thing I can say is "it's not my fault"