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Going by the “moderates” section in the OP’s profile in his original instance, it seems to be https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/addons4kodi

Maybe in some cases, it helps to use Alt F10, or, since I’m using Mint and it may change in other systems, maybe the equivalent for yours?

Instead of “good guys”, feels more like “drunk guys”. They removed the games from everywhere, and even the moderators from GOG’s forum, despite usually trying to be as silent as possible for any matters (specially thorny ones), seemed at loss when that happened. And now, out of the blue, EGS granted permission to use Internet Archive’s uploads for the games.

Got RISC OS

mom, I’m scared

Though I have yet to get a Deck for myself, I’d probably use it a lot to read comics. Having used the Vita a lot for that, being able to control the comics with a physical controller was fantastic, and the far greater processing power of the Deck should also avoid pages taking a long while to load (loading Humble Bundle’s ebooks in measly 512 MB of RAM is an experience).

Devs’ page for the game: https://megacatstudios.com/pages/flap-happy

From one side, it does seem like they’re selling something old as new, but from the other, it seems they’re retooling the adaptation process. And as people seem to slowly but surely pressure companies into going back to making quality products, perhaps it’s GOG’s way of saying they’re in this bandwagon of quality shift too.

I think we misinterpreted each other.

In my original comment, I mentioned two separated cases. First, a “some ROMs”, referencing a more general landscape, and then the Genesis/MD collection from Sega specifically. And the “reasonably obtained” part is because some editions are very hard to come by, may be very expensive, and/or may be a nightmare to have the ROMs extracted from.

Then, with your reply, I thought you were asking about the former, when, going by my following reply, it would seem you were asking about the latter and that you thought I was talking about the latter too.

Would that be the case?

Going by some notes I have, for example, the Japanese versions of the Castlevania games, and also the games in the Namco Museum Archives collections.

Sadly some ROMs are only distributed through Steam, and others, at least until the next month, in reference to the ones Sega is delisting, can only be reasonably obtained there.

But indeed, Steam is not trustworthy, in this proposed case due to a publisher being able to simply disable a game’s depots instead of mass revoking licenses. And while I understand the points on getting physical medias, to my understanding, digital medias could work as an ownership system, but it would require a given platform to both distribute stuff DRM-free, and to understand that the copies an user gets are his/her to keep. (but on a side note, back up everything you can, including receipts, ASAP, just in case either the dev/publisher or the store pull a fast one).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE

Maybe set up the VM yourself, then make a shortcut on the desktop and say to your friend to just open it to play the game? Also not very familiar with Windows, but maybe you can set up a script on the VM to open the game at the system’s startup, and to automatically turn off the system when the game closes?

I don’t know how much of a subset I am, but I still use dictionary softwares from Windows 95~2000 era and Android softwares on a completely offline and vanilla VM, partly due to internet randomly going bad, and partly because I am neurotic about digital contents vanishing once support ends.

Can it be used offline?