Generation Emulation

Mario Overruns Erl King

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Re Collection Cover Vga

What have we learned so far?

"If it's on a shelf, it's in trouble"

— Richard Wright

"The best way to lose content is to digitize it."

— Bruno Bachiment

Storage means death

Museum Crate 3 Quarters

Mausoleum Tomb Vga

Migration sucks

Word Processing Document Icon

Microsoft Word Wont Open Word

"Emulation may serve our needs better than hardware"

Library Of Congress Reading Room

2013 Preserving.exe conference, Library of Congress

Smith Sandy Old Computers Sunset

versus

Flanagan Phage Vpc B Ill

"We cannot all become museums of computer hardware"

Emulation by professionals: 2004-2014

Flanagan Phage Vpc B Ill

Emulation by amateurs: 1974-2014

FCEUX Nintendo Nes Emulator

Flavin Dan Guggenheim Outside

Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice, Guggenheim, 2004.

Same look and feel

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King (1982, emulated 2004)

Same behavior

Simon Colorpanels V A Ill

John F. Simon, Jr. Color Panel (1999, emulated 2004)

Tempest Screen

Watch video of original Tempest arcade or Next slide

Daisy-chaining emulators

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 1

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 2

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 3

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 4

Cross-generational training

Types Of Emulation Max

Generation Emulation Max

Daisychain Emulators Max

Emulate Vintage Game Max

Unreliable Archivists

Frightened Expert

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