Grazza
helium hydride
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Yes, some ports (most notably Eternity and Prboom, of those currently being developed) have support built in for many types of demos - indeed, this is one of the priorities for the teams behind them. Thus, even if the engine has changed significantly in a new version, it is still likely to play back demos recorded with older versions, or any of the demotypes (e.g. Boom, MBF) that those older versions supported.
Legacy even has a reasonable degree of compatibility between versions - I don't know how deliberate that is though. At any rate, Legacy demos from a year ago often tend to play back OK with the current version.
Anyway, the aim here wasn't to start an argument about ports, but just to alert people to this issue, and to suggest they don't delete their copy of 50.cab.
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