I also like older games though with xp dieing even though I will have
it to play older stuff and will stay 32 bit otherwise as long as I
can there will come a day where I may just not be able to play the
old classics without a major fiddling round.
Or I get a server to run vms on that may happen, sertainly I will not
be trying to run a vm on my win 7 wrig again to slow.
At 06:36 AM 12/29/2013, you wrote:
Hello,
If sound would be available I'd check this out.
I like older video games, I had enough sight to play them.
Dave
On 12/28/13, Phil Vlasak <phi...@bex.net> wrote:
> Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games online for free
> At the moment, the games don't have sound.
>
> National Monitor, Craig Manning | December 28, 2013
>
> Who needs to keep old video game consoles in their basement, collecting
> dust, when all of the classic games those consoles supported are playable
> online? Who needs to spend money amassing a sprawling video game collection
>
> when older games can be accessed on the web for a fee of approximately
> nothing?
>
> Those are the questions being posed by the Internet Archive
which, according
>
> to a report published on Friday by Digital Spy, recently made a huge
> collection of older video games available and playable online for free.
> Don't
> get too excited yet to play through all of those Super Nintendo and N64
> games from your youth, though: at the moment, the so-called
Internet Archive
>
> Console Living Room, is only dedicated to the most retro of gaming
> consoles.
>
> So far, the Console Living Room includes sections for five different gaming
>
> consoles, the Atari 2600, the Atari 7800 ProSystem, the ColecoVision, the
> Magnavox Odyssey, and the Astrocade. The Atari consoles are still
remembered
>
> fondly by many gamers, while some of the other models have been a bit more
> forgotten over time. Regardless of how successful the gaming systems were
> back in the day, however, hundreds of their games have now been
modified for
>
> emulated computer and internet use. From "Donkey Kong" to
"Pac-Man" and from
>
> "Asteroids" to old licensed games like "Spider-Man" and "The Return of the
> Jedi," the Internet Archive Console Living Room will allow players to
> recapture the timeless throwback feel of 1970s and 1980s gaming.
>
> At the moment, the games don't have sound, removing the beeps and
blips that
>
> would truly posit the Internet Archive Console Living Room as a vintage and
>
> nostalgic experience. However, Jason Scott, one of the Internet Archive's
> curators suggested that the Console Living Room section would be receiving
> some overhauls and improvements over the next few months. Sound will be one
>
> of those improvements, as will an expansion of the game library. Could
> players see games from more recent consoles, such as early Nintendo or Sega
>
> models, make their way to the Archive over the next few years? That remains
>
> to be seen, but if the experiment is well received, it's a possibility.
>
> However, before the Archive can get Nintendo, it needs to get through the
> early stages of implementing the Console Living Room as a widely used and
> respected tool. Scott says he wants the instant availability of
the games to
>
> open up opportunities for "commentary, education, enjoyment, and memory."
> However, it's currently unclear whether or not the Archive has
permission to
>
> emulate every game it currently has in its collection. Some retro game
> developers may prefer to port their own games over to smartphones so that
> they can make a profit off the retro gaming revival.
> https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom
>
>
>
>
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