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Published Articles and
Websites of Interest
A collection of links to a range of information related to CAMiLEON's work on emulation and preservation.
Publications
Note - see CAMiLEON Reports for project publications and reports.
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Emulation and Open Source Projects
Interesting emulation example.
Other emulator stories and examples:
Summary of the potential appeal of .NET as a development platform.
Proposal of draft standards to ECMA.
Other Open Source Projects:
Three projects providing platforms for hosting Windows applications on Linux. Following on from the above here is a demo version of such a crossover program, Codeweavers provide funding for WINE Slashdot's evaluation of the demo version above.
Apart from the legal issues this story talks about the OpenCores site and compatibility issues for clones, using an approach described as "open source hardware".
News Story about a Bill (#1609) under consideration by the Peruvian congress which would require all public
institutions to consider open source software whenever software was required by the state. Also included are links to a statement by Microsoft outlining their concerns, as well
as the Senators response. The Senators argument for open source software is based around the practical reasons of:
Security of Data; Certaintity of software availability and Interoperability between systems, rather than political or fiscal reasons often put forward by open source adherents.
This statement touches on some of the more significant issues in computing today, is technically adroit and accesible to most readers.
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Old and New Technology Developments
Two Commodore hackers, Adam Dunkels and Peter Eliasson, have built an Ethernet card for their C64 and have connected one to the Internet. But they aren't 'just' running a TCP/IP stack and a web server on it - they are also running a RealAudio server which streams audio from the C64's cassette player and apparently, it sounds awful! They have the full source code avaliable and pictures of the C64 server.
Article and User group for the TRS-100, they seem to be taking the "maintain the old hardware" approach pretty seriousley, swapping parts, repair advice etc.
The Amstrad NC100 a UK laptop quite similar to the TRS-100
Issues for the Development of Emulators?
Explanations of Crusoe and "code morphing".
Examples of Undocumented features of Intel processors. Emulating these at a later date without knowledge of the time (or a handy website like this) could prove very difficult.
Story in The Register (below) about the blocking of drivers and other software that fails to meet the XP certification standard. it seems like a lot of XP components are going to be big preservation issues.
Might even warrant moving objects to another OS (*NIX or whatever) as part
of the ingest process, even if emulation at the hardware level is the=20
preservation strategy within the repository. There may just be too many
contraints to consider the XP (and later Windows) OS as part of the
bytes stream that's to be preserved.
An anlysis of Windows Product Activation (WPA), which seems
relatively objective but has also been confirmed by Microsoft as being
mostly correct.
This definitely seems like a system that can be worked around for
preservation purposes, which I would think could involve ensuring that
the proper identifying strings (or at least 7 or more of them) were
included as part of the interface to the emulation of a given hardware
platform.
For the above white paper, a MS representative
says, "The
report is largely accurate technically, but it also contains
some
errors. The errors, in our opinion, do not however affect the
report's
conclusions. We will not pass judgment on the technical
details of the
report. There is no security issue here. Companies and
individuals
research, decompile, and review our code all the time. There
is nothing
in the report that can aid hackers."
"PocketPalm" a Palm OS emulator
Clockless chips : issues for emulation?
More developments that may affect emulation.
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Computer Games and Emulation
Exhibitions
The History of Computer Games
News Articles on Various Aspects of Computer Games
Index of Emulators and code for the Game "Spacewars" mentioned in the article above.
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Miscellaneous Websites and News Articles
"Digital Document Quarterley" Homepage
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