UK University Making Universal Game Emulator 217
Techradar reports that researchers at the University of Portsmouth in England are working on a project to create a game emulator that will "recognise and play all types of videogames and computer files from the 1970s through to the present day." One of the major goals of the project is to preserve software from early in the computer age. David Anderson of the Humanities Computing Group said, "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. ... Games particularly tend not to be archived because they are seen as disposable, pulp cultural artefacts, but they represent a really important part of our recent cultural history. Games are one of the biggest media formats on the planet and we must preserve them for future generations."
Re:Preservation (Score:1, Funny)
--Especially now that copyrights last for 6 billion years or so.
Um... the sun will explode in 5 billion years.
Tennis for Two? (Score:3, Funny)
But can it emulate Tennis for Two [wikipedia.org]? (These guys [gamersquarter.com] did it...)
Re:This counts as valuable university research? (Score:2, Funny)
Cambridge is probably the most highly regarded university in the country.
Yeah, and then Bath. Oxford's a shambles.</blackadder>