- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable
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This is depressing. I cannot stress enough how critical emulators are in this area. Especially emulators that can emulate old obscure CPU architecture or whatever else needed to run super old games. We can preserve them forever this way regardless of available hardware. Keep ROMs archived on many places too, cold storages, etc.
FPGA are also really big, they are close to hardware perfect as we are going to get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE
This is one of my favorite GDC talks and it’s about this subject with a sizeable segment devoted to the second paragraph in this article comparing Video Games to the availability of classic Movies.