COMING SOON...THE CONSOLE THAT PLAYS EVERY GAME
COMING SOON...THE CONSOLE THAT PLAYS EVERY GAME
The console will keep all footie games old and new
16th February 2009
By Gary Nicks
BOFFINS have created a super console capable of playing every computer game ever invented.
It will see arcade classics like Pacman and Space Invaders blast back in their original format.
The £2million console, known as KEEP, was developed at the University of Portsmouth with help from across Europe and America.
It can save classics and new games.
Dr Janet Delve said: “People don’t think twice about saving files digitally, from snapshots taken on camera phone to national or regional archives.
“But every digital file risks being lost either by degrading or by the technology used to ‘read’ it disappearing altogether.
“There’s a very real risk that we could bequeath a blank spot in history.”
KEEP will be able to save a vast amount of digital information. It is estimated that in 2010 the equivalent of 18million times the information contained in all the books ever written will be stored by KEEP, all at the click of a button.
Dr David Anderson added: “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. For future generations it would be a cultural catastrophe.”
Computer games expert Dan Pinchbeck said: “You can actually boot up and experience these historical artefacts – not just read about them, but in the case of games, actually play, get a feel for what they are really like and how they work.”
Spoiler:
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by BBK
Social Networking Bookmarks