STEAM for RISC OS?

I’ve found myself with a large number of older (26 bit etc) games/applications from various websites over the years and having just added a 40Gb(!) torrent to this collection, I’m at a loss how to get this all organised and easy to play old software.

Would a program similar to STEAM be useful to anyone?

Browse through your collection: click run and it either unpacks the zip or mounts the ADF and runs the application or just runs it from your hdd if installed

Of course this is without the store part

ADFFS goes some way to achieving this, although is only so simple for legally re-distributable titles. If you install PackMan, you can install ADFFS and a number of re-released games which have lots of ‘secret sauce’ to make them work on a Pi (rather than an Archimedes 310).

Learn all about it here: https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=14

I like the idea of STEASM-style simplicity. You only have to skim this forum to see tales of getting software X working on hardware Y, with module version Z… and these combinations are only obtainable by emailing people for zips, or downloading bits and pieces from various web sites. I’m all for making it idiot-proof.

Hmm perhaps something more like Lutris, with scripts for each version/OS for it to run on.