GOG Preservation Program adds Heroes of Might and Magic titles and more

Apparently it can survive "billions of years, extreme conditions, and even a trip through an oven".

Hope they also included plans for building a machine capable of running the game and all the required software, too.

I guess tech like that usually comes with instructions on how to decode the content in the first place, ideally starting simple and getting ever more sophisticated until finally getting at the real data, but chances are this ends up as Write-Only memory.

At least for the next couple thousand years, it might have sufficed to stamp the byte code into clay tablets. They'd also survive an oven and everyone could read them without special equipment. Typing such a listing back into a computer might pose a bit of a challenge, though ...

Apparently it can survive "billions of years, extreme conditions, and even a trip through an oven".

Oh, good! When alien life visits the planet after we're long extinct due to climate change, they will be able to enjoy one of the best turn-based strategy games the human race ever made. Hopefully, that will make them feel better after the disappointment of finding our planet long dead.

This GOG preservation program is the worst thing for Linux and preserving. If they referred people to run their games with Bottles and wine the game would be preserved but as is they are inserting their own libraries into the .exe file making the game unusable on Linux when the game worked perfectly fine before. I do not know but maybe there is a fork of wine that handles the custom .exe files. All I know was I learned this the hard way that GOG preservation is screwing games for Linux. I Dl a copy of HOMM3 from my GOG library and it didn't run after I installed the game. I tried both Playonlinux and Bottles which the game worked perfectly fine in before The game did not run now after an install. After some searching I found some ClI stuff to fix the dll or lib or whatever it is in the .exe but I found it easier to get working with Heroes HD. Heroes HD apparently works because it replaces the .exe with it's own .exe. When I got home I tried the back up I had on my NAS and it installed and ran fine preservation my arse GOG should stop screwing around and refer people to Linux to preserve.