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UK University Making Universal Game Emulator
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."
I'll probably get scored off topic for this but I really want to point out that right now as you play around on the internet, trolling about Linux, you are doing so through a Linux server of some kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Servers_and_supercomputers.
Also when you refer to the community as "a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere" it shows how little you understand the topic.
I knew nothing about Linux when I started using it, and because of that I was forced to learn and from learning I gained knowledge and understanding, and continue to do so. And I do so because that community is there to help me instead of putting me on hold and cycling me through a call center, and I am gratefull to them for helping me access that knowledge.
It's about freedom of choice. Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, etc are all choices; use what you like but you don't have to troll about other peoples choices.... Especially when your post has nothing to do with the article in the first place... go to the Linux section. But then again your probably not even a regular user who posted anonymously... just a troll passing through.
I step down from my soap box to get back on topic... I use several emulators, my son is learning to play a lot of the games that I played when I was a kid. It would actually be nice to only need one all encompassing emulator though... as long as it works.
sudo apt-get lost
Oh noes! Designing your web page to standards and avoiding using deprecated features in your web page. How horrible it would be if more people actually were properly coding their web pages.
Coding a web page properly and coding a web page so that a colorblind moron that is deaf, mute and without any fingers and only understands Latin are not the same thing.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
I see a brief comment I made was modded -1 redundant. Hilarious, given that it was second post.