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Not just science, factory equipment that needs ancient computers to function too. If you've ever wondered why some old PC parts are surprisingly expensive on eBay…
Out of curiosity, I ran through some sample quizzes of the A+ exam a while back. Managed to pass, but I had to dig out a lot of my old knowledge about IDE master/slave setups and COM port settings and the like. That may be partially due to A+ being a silly, meaningless cert, but it's pretty clear there is a need for that crap still.
Many years ago, I worked for a software company that included code escrow for our customers. If something happened to is, they could unlock the code and support it themselves.
It can be done, but probably only is in industries with strong companies for customers
There is also open source software.
On that Windows 95 anecdote, by the way, beyond gaming that's also one of the advantages of wine. Pretty sure their software would run perfectly on Linux with wine.
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Edit: lol, I haven't realised I'm not in a video game subforum. But my point stands and I agree that old software should be pirated or downloaded for free if the proprietor is a jackass that no longer provide support but still try to milk every cent from a dead horse.
Devil's advocate: old games don't have great quality of life improvements that we take for granted today and having remakes could fix the issues.
I played Civilizations 3 again and even though the graphics still hold up quite well by today's standards, the UI doesn't hold a candle to the later releases. Suffice to say, I won't be playing Civ 3 again despite having grown up with the game. Old games like Civ 3 requires you to have like OCD and be extremely patient, which is something you can't really have as an adult with less time to play videogames. There are old games that would require retouching-- without the baggage of parasitic modern trends of course like DLshit and microtransactions.
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