Originally posted by: ThatArtGuy
Not exactly true. Many arcade games came with suicide batteries (even in the 80's) that would destroy your pcb board once the energy in the battery died. (Call it murder-suicide.) This is the whole "the company knows best" syndrome all over again. You bought a 2,500 dollar machine, but it's going to die in 5 years... if you're lucky.
Oh, and don't say emulation is the same. It's not.
Not exactly true. Many arcade games came with suicide batteries (even in the 80's) that would destroy your pcb board once the energy in the battery died. (Call it murder-suicide.) This is the whole "the company knows best" syndrome all over again. You bought a 2,500 dollar machine, but it's going to die in 5 years... if you're lucky.
Oh, and don't say emulation is the same. It's not.
I was talking about computer programs. Not hardware. Programs -- data, information, numbers -- can always be represented and reproduced separate from the hardware on which they may or may not be distributed. (Assuming you have a good source, and sources for Doom are extant.) You can put it on a ROM chip, a floppy disk, or in a book, it's the same thing. And I know for a fact that Doom did not include a suicide battery.
And emulation is the same.