UK university develops massive games emulator
Videogames are not pulp cultural artefacts and should be preserved.
Computer historians and researchers at Portsmouth University in the UK are developing a software emulator that will recognise and play all types of videogames and computer files from the 1970s through to the present day.
"Early hardware, like games consoles and computers, are already found in museums. But if you can't show visitors what they did, by playing the software on them, it would be much the same as putting musical instruments on display but throwing away all the music. For future generations it would be a cultural catastrophe," according to Dr David Anderson from Portsmouth University, who is heading up a remarkable new project to save all the digital info and games created since the 1970s.
"A vast bank of information needs to be catalogued and stored," adds researcher and computer games expert Dan Pinchbeck.
Read more at: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/uk-uni-developing-massive-game...
Computer historians and researchers at Portsmouth University in the UK are developing a software emulator that will recognise and play all types of videogames and computer files from the 1970s through to the present day.
"Early hardware, like games consoles and computers, are already found in museums. But if you can't show visitors what they did, by playing the software on them, it would be much the same as putting musical instruments on display but throwing away all the music. For future generations it would be a cultural catastrophe," according to Dr David Anderson from Portsmouth University, who is heading up a remarkable new project to save all the digital info and games created since the 1970s.
"A vast bank of information needs to be catalogued and stored," adds researcher and computer games expert Dan Pinchbeck.
Read more at: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/uk-uni-developing-massive-game...
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