I actually disagree here, as I have games that I purchased that only work in win98/winXP/7 I think they should make one “last” version that supports those old systems to facilitate the old games on these old versions. No new features or anything just what’s needed to provide access to these old games

[–] eyeon@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't the last version already that..well..last version?

If anything they could just leverage their work with proton that allows steam to play windows games on Linux to provide similar compatibility shims for old windows on modern windows

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I remember right, the first Tomb Raider (at least before the remaster) was shipped with DOSBox to be about to run.

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you own track mania nations forever on steam, you will be unable to run it on a modern OS. You can install mods to make it work but the game is still for sale and if you're unaware the mod exists, you'll never be able to play it again

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It runs fine on Linux.

It's true that most people wouldn't know, and probably wouldn't look that far into things before buying a game. Fortunately Steam's refund policy is pretty good for this kind of situation.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

There is a version of it on Internet Archive that I don't know if it's from Valve or not. It's zipped installation of Steam. But I had no luck making it work, it's webpage renderer still crashes at launch. As I've read into it, the old version should work for a while without updates.

https://archive.org/details/Steam_Windows_7

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tried compatibility mode already?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Or machine virtualization, VirtualBox and similar programs are piss easy to learn to use and most machines today should have 0 issue emulating older windows and an old game in a VM

Any issues you might have are going to be hardware related, like really old games not playing nice on no original hardware, but if you've got one of those then just install the last version of the OS and isolate that original hardware machine from any networking and it's completely safe to use as a game console