born3088: The main statement of the article is that it will be almost impossible to make todays games available in 10 or 20 years, because of windows and the hardware getting more and more complex. And the reason why we can play 20 year old games today is just because DOS is quite simple compared to Windows XP or Windows 8.
IAmSinistar: But VMs will step into the same role that DOSbox now serves. As hardware gets more powerful, processors get faster, and memory/storage gets cheaper, there should be no problem with wrappering a game in a VM that simulates a stripped-down OS of yesterday. Hell, that's what projects like UAE do now, and that doesn't just emulate the AmigaDOS operating system, but all the hardware too.
No need to sound the klaxons of doom quite yet.
Bingo, exactly what I was going to say.
This article is like arguments 20 years ago that we wouldn't be able to play old arcade games or NES games, etc. As technology progresses, new methods are discovered. Heck, there are some games on GOG right now that emulate a specific 3D graphics card technology (Voodoo) in order to offer hardware 3D graphics support...