Videogames are not pulp cultural artefacts and should be preserved...
UK researchers at Portsmouth University developing massive, universal games and data emulator to preserve our digital heritage...
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.
Remember all those videogames from your childhood and teenage years? Want to play them all again, without having to download umpteen different emulators?
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That would be f*cking awesome. I'm oldies fan and I often play oldschools so it would help a lot. Keeping one, big library of favourite games without messing with multiple emulators. Can't wait.
Though I'm not sure how it would actually work. I'm very keen to know more though!
Maybe I'll have to move to Portsmouth!
Yea that sounds pretty awesome. The classics are where its at.
emulators usually are a bich to start up, from all those weird files u have to download separately, to filling in and typing random commands and what not, i think the biggest challenge to make this a success is to have 1 big download which will upload all the necessary things by itself and be very user friendly when started up. very good idea indeed and i hope they pull it off. i would definitely replay some of the best PS1 RPGs all over again, golden sun series on gameboy, and even contra and few others on the old school nintendo.