Longevity of disc based consoles?

[fiddlepaddle]

Eventually, we'll just be able to directly stimulate the brain into believing it just played a great game of Asteroids.

 

There, no hardware or emulator needed.

[TheGameCollector]

Agreed..

And I use some of those technologies..

But if I'm not using a floppy, it's not the same.

Better? Possibly, but not the same..

 

Same with optical..

 

Now, these emulators/simulators are great, but so is emulation...

 

How many steps do you take away from the original hardware (RF to composite to svideo to LCD flat panel; optical to simulator to huge storage device with LOTS of optical images) before you are just as good emulating the whole thing???

 

Just wondering...

 

desiv

 

Emulation on the PC is generally inaccurate choppy crap while emulation of parts using the real consoles is much more accurate. I imagine people might still collect complete games in the distant future even if none of them work anymore. Especially the cases and manuals.

[Rex Dart]

Agreed..

And I use some of those technologies..

But if I'm not using a floppy, it's not the same.

Better? Possibly, but not the same..

 

Same with optical..

 

Now, these emulators/simulators are great, but so is emulation...

 

How many steps do you take away from the original hardware (RF to composite to svideo to LCD flat panel; optical to simulator to huge storage device with LOTS of optical images) before you are just as good emulating the whole thing???

 

Just wondering...

 

desiv

 

 

Well, I'm happy leaving whether or not it's "the same" up to the obessive-compulsives; I'll just be happy still being able to play my games on my consoles however they're loaded.

[SRGilbert]

People are using old floppy drives as an example of hardware longevity, but I have a hard time believing that new optical drives are made with the same quality as those old disk drives were.

 

 

[desiv]

Well, I'm happy leaving whether or not it's "the same" up to the obessive-compulsives;

 

Oh SNAP!!

 

And you've even baited me by misspelling "obsessive" in order to get me to prove my CDO (It's like OCD, but the letters are in the proper alphabetical order).

 

Well, I'm not biting....

 

..

 

D'oh!!

 

:-)

 

desiv