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“This isn’t just about preserving old games—it’s about preserving the story of computing itself,” writes software engineer Juan Manuel Mendez Rey in an article documenting his 20-year quest to relicense Conquer (1987), a pioneering multiplayer strategy game distributed across Usenet in five separate files. Tracking down the fragmented code and obtaining permission from the surviving developers, Rey secured GPL licensing and released the revived game on GitHub.
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