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@trix @lina note that mikko didn’t have to find a 30 year old libc to run alongside the binary

@lina @trix the last time I tried to run old binaries was a while ago, and it was various Loki games binaries from the early 00s. Short version: they don’t work today. Some of the issues can be worked around with effort. YMMV

@lina @trix oh I agree: they’re definitely a different magnitude of complexity. The question I guess is, would the average ancient binary someone might want to run today work or not? Need more data

@lina @trix and a windows counter example: doom (1993) same age as Mikko’s example, won’t run in modern windows today, most DOS stuff won’t I think, and all the 16 bit stuff won’t

@lina
If you depend on X then probably not, either. X is no longer bug compatible with X of 20 years ago. In general that's a good thing, but not if you're trying to run old binaries.
@jmtd @trix

@jernej__s indeed. FWIW, to play doom “faithfully” there are much better options nowadays. Windoom broke a bunch of things (apparently it was ported by Gabe Newell in his time at Microsoft)

@jernej__s fair enough, sorry! It is a good illustration of that. I just got distracted by doom trivia