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Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Excellent that they don't engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.

Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Gog goes another step and provides a guarantee on stuff they've modified to ensure it works, and provide an offline installer that's entirely self-contained for archviing purposes.