You bring up a good point about the future of preservation. The world seems hellbent on continuing to use windows for all games, even the ripped ones, but in truth the only real way forward is to not have whatever files we want preserves associated with any company at all.

And I don’t just mean the new and shiny ones. I’m talking everything from Frogger 95 to Elden Ring. Whatever the move forward, it would behoove all of us to find a solution outside of any particular ecosystem. The dot game of file extensions, the usb port of universability which each and any OS can read and play the item.

Course that’s if we don’t get sued into oblivion for even trying, or can survive everything else first.