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In the distant past I spent a lot of time playing MS-DOS games. After I started university in 1995, it was already more about revisiting old favourites than about simply playing games. For years after university I still had an old PC with DOS games, using it rarely, and eventually not using it anymore. I also have a DOS games directory on my current PCs, and DOSBox installed, but I practically never run it. I've probably spent less than an hour in DOSBox over the last year, and virtually no time running it in a web browser. I recently fixed the old PC with DOS games, and I still don't care about gaming there.

When I started this port I was already practically done with DOS gaming, but porting DOSBox to the web was an interesting challenge and a way to leverage any remaining interest in DOS. I loved doing that initially. But after it became popular my own experience became more about pleasing others than about doing something I loved.

I feel bad about not even reading issues posted on here. But I feel worse about doing work for free only out of a sense of obligation. I don't know how this could become something I love doing again.

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