That’s the Holo ISO project. It looks pretty experimental and only supports certain hardware (nvidia graphics cards not recommended).

That’s pretty much how ancient texts survived. People would write to each other at the time, asking “hey, do you know that guy who has a copy of Epictetus’s Enchiridion? Could you have him send it to me, I’ll make a copy and send his back”. There are many ancient works that we know existed in this way because we have the letters asking for them, but the actual text of the work didn’t survive.

This has gotten me thinking about legal deposit requirements, such as those that have existed for centuries in certain countries where published works must have a copy submitted to a national library for conservation purposes. Does anyone know if there are initiatives like this for video games? How are they going?

Not much different than Sims 4’s abundance of DLCs, then.

Plus the Sims 4 base game is already free. So basically more of the same?

As a series the Sims has allowed many small, independent creators to express themselves and make money off their creations; I hope this continues with the Sims 5.