• emulation and preservation

    From Joshua Allen@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 19 08:39:31 2024
    to emulate or not to preserve that is the question,
    is it noble to resort to such tactics to make sure the games of old work
    in the future on modern systems?
    or perhaps is it the ends justify the means in making sure from this
    point on all games are catalogued forever in xkind.

    id rather sleep maybe dream about the memories since at my death all i
    will ever have is my memories and even then i will loose them and become
    part of the history that i once existed.

    SNES
    Genesis
    Xbox
    PS2
    3do
    apple pippin

    tis really a burden on the average person to carry the weight of the
    world on the shoulders of stuff that will inevitably be lost to time

    i am i therefore you are i and we are one and the same

    the games represent the intellectual minds and intangible creations of
    those before us so reinventing the wheel over and over to keep it alive
    is the only way.

    there is free software games (openttd/openarena) but the hardware cannot
    be freed and easily copied/cloned so emulators do not truly emulate the hardships and limitations of the time

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