AI Just Resurrected a 20-Year-Old Game. The Real Problem? It’s Not Legal.
An AI just converted a 20-year-old Pascal game into a fully playable web version, proving that the real bottleneck for software preservation is no longer technical skill — it’s copyright law. This is the story of how a hobbyist with a prompt outdid the entire gaming industry, and why the future of digital history depends on letting AI do what publishers won’t.