The creator of the Simple apps sold them to an advertising company, which has since added trackers into the apps. The fossify project is forking all of them to keep them tracker free and to continue development.
Thank you for taking the time to write all this, I’ve been interested in immutable desktops for a while, and this was probably the best overview of them that I’ve seen to date!
Yeah some of the animations look a little unpolished, and they left just enough frames in that you can see the revolver doesn’t move at all when it’s fired, just a little smoke cloud clips through his hand.
As others have said, you’re in that pocket of time where the game wants more than DOS, but less than modern windows, which isn’t well catered to. Your best option is a windows 98 or 95 virtual machine, which is doable, but not trivial or quick to set up.
I feel that’s one of the best ways to grow the Fediverse further than it already is.
What I’ve seen happen is that someone with an interest in a more niche thing here will create a community for it, actively post in it for a couple weeks, and maybe a couple other people will post in it a couple times too, but then the creator loses interest or lacks material to post, and the community sits with old posts months old.
Not to dissuade you from making an attempt at creating those communities, but it’s just a little hard to sustain them without active participation to keep people coming back and growing.
You may even find that there are some active communities for games you’re interest in, but may just have trouble finding them. The best way I’ve found to discover communities is with Lemmyverse, using the communities tab at the top.