Announced Today: The @internetarchive is now emulating handheld toys and games, building on the work of the @mamedev_org team. These are not "remakes" but emulations of the original circuits. Announcement is here: https://t.co/yuKihutxVs spread the word widely. pic.twitter.com/fCjzNCMFBR— Jason Scott (@textfiles) March 18, 2018Archivist Jason Scott explains the painstaking process of emulating these little plastic chunks of joy, explaining the technology behind making sure the various VFD, LCD and LED games are thoroughly scanned and emulated at a high level of verisimilitude.Scott explains that while most circuit boards containing these games can be read from non-destructively, it can sometimes be necessary (as with LCD game machines) to rip the entire thing apart to get all the information off of it. "To get the information off an LCD game, it has to be pulled apart and all its components scanned, vectorized, and traced to then make them into a software version of themselves," … [Read more...] about Internet Archive is saving all your favorite handheld LCD games
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Facebook promises to delete unpublished videos
New York Magazine. "We discovered a bug that prevented draft videos from being deleted. We are deleting them and apologize for the inconvenience." It's not clear how widespread the issue is, nor whether there is a way to make sure that videos have been deleted. We've reached out to Facebook and will update this post when we hear back. … [Read more...] about Facebook promises to delete unpublished videos