[game_preservation] [Projects] Emulator Information

[Dan Pinchbeck]

Yeah, on that last point, that'd be a massive help - looks like I'm lining up for a month or two on Google as it is...

Dr Dan Pinchbeck
Advanced Games Research Group
School of Creative Technologies
University of Portsmouth, UK

www.thechineseroom.co.uk
www.keep.port.ac.uk

>>> Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> 01/05/09 9:52 AM >>>

Wow, thanks! That's the major workload - all counted, there's probably a 
thousand systems and regional variations of systems including major 
computers (nevermind minor ones), but the main amount is a few hundred 
AFAIK, so any big list would be awesome.

That's a good point too - if anyone has any emulation resources - ie; 
websites dedicated to reporting news on emulators, or listing emulators, 
or providing downloads of them (not just for game systems) please post 
them :)

Andrew

Dan Pinchbeck wrote:

> Funny you should mention this - we've got a small list of available emulators already (x86 and C64) and it's on my to-do pile to bulk it out with some more... will send a bigger list through once we've got it together...

>

> cheers all

>

> dan

>

> Dr Dan Pinchbeck

> Advanced Games Research Group

> School of Creative Technologies

> University of Portsmouth, UK

>

> www.thechineseroom.co.uk

> www.keep.port.ac.uk

>   

>>>> Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> 30/04/09 4:06 PM >>>

>>>>         

> Please put forward any comments, or if you want to help on this project:

>

>     * *Title:* Emulator Information (Emulators)

>     * *Purpose:* Articles and information on emulators, who makes them,

>       who plays them and what ones exist for different computer systems.

>       Information on what companies use them, what funded projects have

>       worked on them and so forth would also be useful.

>     * *Lead:* /None/

>     * *Started:* N/A

>

> This requires a similar set of work as the collectors, except it is a 

> very, very small amount of people involved in making emulators, and 

> finding them (some don't go online much funnily enough) is difficult. 

> Some major projects, however, that spring to mind are MAME and SCUMMVM 

> that need some investigation.

>

> Funded projects that spring to mind are KEEP, as well as emulation work 

> at the University of Tokyo. Commercially there is also a subset of 

> industry dedicated to this (WiiWare, Xbox 360 ports, retro collections 

> which all use emulation).

>

> Andrew

>

>

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