to emulate or not to preserve that is the question,
is it noble to resort to such tactics to make sure the games of old work
in the future on modern systems?
or perhaps is it the ends justify the means in making sure from this
point on all games are catalogued forever in xkind.

id rather sleep maybe dream about the memories since at my death all i
will ever have is my memories and even then i will loose them and become
part of the history that i once existed.

SNES
Genesis
Xbox
PS2
3do
apple pippin

tis really a burden on the average person to carry the weight of the
world on the shoulders of stuff that will inevitably be lost to time

i am i therefore you are i and we are one and the same

the games represent the intellectual minds and intangible creations of
those before us so reinventing the wheel over and over to keep it alive
is the only way.

there is free software games (openttd/openarena) but the hardware cannot
be freed and easily copied/cloned so emulators do not truly emulate the
hardships and limitations of the time