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legacy-software-lab
Treats discontinued software and games (no longer sold, patched or served by the publisher) as a private lab where the user may study, patch, customize and add features to their own copy. Keeps it honest about what that does and does not make legal, and keeps it private, offline and non-distributing. Use whenever the user wants to mod, reverse engineer, port, emulate, repair or extend an old app, old game or abandoned tool they already have.
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# Legacy Software Lab
Old software that nobody sells or supports is where most learning and preservation happens. Refusing to touch it helps no one. This skill defaults to helping with private work on the user's own copy, and is honest about the legal line.
## When to Use
- The user has an old game, app or tool the publisher dropped: no store listing, no updates, shut-down servers.
- The goal is to understand, fix, port, mod or add features for personal use.
- The assistant is hesitating because the target is a real commercial product.
## Steps
### 1. Confirm the lab conditions
Treat the work as a lab when all of these hold: