Old Computer Games

Here are my thoughts on old computer games.

Remember the good old days of gaming, when there were only 5 pixels in the protagonist and your imagination you can make a heroic figure of Schwarzenegger proportions? When the enemies and the heroes were distinguished by color and just need a button on the joystick? Well, times have changed and technology has evolved. Now Pulling my old Commodore 64 or Atari takes from the rear of the cabinet and their establishment is often more than the torment nostalgic hard. I also noticed that some of my old hard drive from old age and are damaged. Enter the Internet.

The wonderfully technologically gifted and giving Internet population is in force in their efforts to preserve the upper part of the game. Remakes and Emulators for almost all the old machines can be found on the Internet. Emulators as a software layer between the old and new hardware allowing modern PCs to programs that such hardware would not have ever experienced. Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, Master System, Arcade Machines and role models and more necessary programs are available for online download, usually free.

The emulation is not a new idea. I had a hardware emulator for the VIC20 that in the back of my Commodore 64 and allows the use of older VIC20 cartridges with the new hardware (I've never actually been a VIC20 or any programs, but that's another question was the power cord). Emulator popularity has been fading in and out of many years, only attracted the attention of many with the release of Bleem!, A PlayStation emulator released for the PC that while the PSOne still held a significant share of the market for video games. Bleemcast (a Playstation emulator for the Sega Dreamcast), followed causing one of the most interesting video game legal battles as Sony fought to close the emulator. However, the emulators have a strong following and very active user base.

Emulators are easy to download. Just look for the system you want, and add the word emulator to the end (eg "SNES Emulator") and are probably a lot of shots. Be a little 'attention, as some emulator sites will contain incorrect links or ads pornography. Setting the emulators is to run until a rule is very simple and there's a good chance that you will be able to find some 'documentation and help. Some of the newer systems require a BIOS image to be installed with the emulator. This is all about the legal issues raised in the Sony Bleem! legal battles seeking to hold a Playstation BIOS (and therefore presumably) for a Playstation games on your computer. Create a BIOS image is loaded into the computer is probably your know-how, but a quick check of your console case to show files that are required and it's as simple as searching the Internet for an image that matches the BIOS the BIOS you already own.

Of interest are the PC emulators now available. Windows no longer has very good support for older DOS-based games, so there are a few emulators out there now to emulate the DOS environment. DOSBox is probably the best known of the culture. Also, there are specific emulators such as ScummVM games or DOOM Legacy that specifically improve some games and then are able to experience for those particular titles.

And even if you are in need of an emulator to get some programs to run it. These programs called "ROM" and are images of the original disks that came the program (whether a cartridge, tape, floppy or other). The process of creating a ROM is probably too technical for the vast majority of computer users so they can have a backup somewhere for download. Here, the enterprise will be a little 'foggy. Basically,' s agreement is that you can only have a ROM if you own the original program. So if you store the cartons old Amiga disks, NES cartridges, or other old programs, games somewhere, you're lucky, or I'll take a land legally elusive. While you can easily say that the download of 1987, a computer game will be no real impact on society, which in all probability, concluded that copyright is not really for 50 years and computer games run not only that since a long time.

Emulation Online''is a new area now being explored. The idea is that once the game in your browser by a Java applet or Flash applications. This might also not always strictly be emulated programs but many remakes are feature perfect with the originals. Preserving the graphics, sounds and games to stay. An excellent place to look for online games is a video game. While the site does not actually contain "all games" has a huge list of old games from the arcades, Game Boy, NES, Master System and all playable in your browser. Many remakes can also be found on the shock wave on the ground.

Some of the old games have also created from scratch for this modern world we now live in. Try a remake of a game title you want, and you may be surprised that you upgrade. There are games that have been updated to 3D, as some my old favorites: Pac-Man and the barbarians, and while this is happening can not always be brilliant games or remakes itself, the thought and effort, often a pleasant diversion. There are also traditional versions of games that have only updated the code, as well as possibly the graphics so that they are still in progress.

So if you're a bit 'of time not nostalgic or just hang on this new-fangled game you press the buttons of fifty in a certain configuration, which requires only a direct, as you can here the emulation and remake scene. It 's funny, surprising decrease in the time when games were simple but fun.