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the title is dyslexic at best

History is important, although more recent history books have better evidence and data than old ones. Literature, generally, ages well, although it’s mostly survival bias. A lot of it perishes without any loss to the society. Movies sorta age well. Again, only some. Games don’t age well.

Great. In order to prove your commitment to the cause, get to level 8 in dangerous dave.

link: https://www.playdosgames.com/online/dangerous-dave/

Your nostalgia is a bad reason for starting anything really. Most hopefully you won’t push your nostalgia on your children and force them to play outdated games.

It would be great if game developers would open source games when they sunset them, sure. But also this might make it impossible for them to make a remaster of the game and sell it.

You mention doom. But this is a 0.1% case. Thousands of games from that era vanished not because you cannot run them on modern hardware, but because they’re utter garbage by modern standards.

https://dos.zone/ exists, and you can play a lot of iconic games in your browser. What’s exactly the player count there? And those are the best games from that era.

yep, a tiny boot error and suddenly you need to punch commands into initramfs. good luck with that headlessly.

A code editor developed for mac is a massive no go. as in forever.

A few failed exams later you end up programming cyberpunk and since you’re so oblivious to algorithms’ complexity it becomes a meme not a game.

The biggest problem is that even OP is unaware of what is really being skipped: math, stats, optimization & control. And like at a grad level.

But hey, import AI from HuggingFace, and let’s go!