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Old PC games (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Downtown-Pear-6509@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Gday
I have some old PC games that I kept of when I was younger. Games i REALLY loved, but realistically-speaking, I will most likely never play again.

(These are all pre-steam games)

Is it worth grabbing an ISO of the disc and keeping it just in case? Will an Win XP game play on Win11 (or newer) one day?

or is it a bin-and-forget?

Thank you

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[–] mega_ste@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

ISO them. You can always run them in an XP Virtual Machine etc.

I have Star Craft happily running in a VM on my Win10 machine here.