#jsmess 2017-11-13,Mon

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01:59 🔗 Vito` SketchCow: is there a term of art for Emularity-style emulation, as a counterpoint to emulation-as-a-service?
02:00 🔗 Vito` client-side emulation? fat emulation? browser-based emulation?
02:00 🔗 Vito` or should I just call it Emularity
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04:24 🔗 SketchCow Browser-Based Emulation
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20:16 🔗 zino Browser-Based is often used. I'd say "In-browser Emulation" gets closer to the core of it, but my non-native English is not quite sure where you stand on that hyphen.
20:57 🔗 db48x zino: that hyphen is perfect
21:12 🔗 Vito` yeah Google suggested in-browser emulation to me when I searched for browser-based emulation
21:14 🔗 bai it's nice to know that google now has opinions on what it should be called
21:14 🔗 bai we've made it
21:14 🔗 db48x heh
21:15 🔗 Vito` anyone know why azakai named emscripten, emscripten?
21:18 🔗 zino Well, it makes C-ish things into ECMA-script, so there is play on words right there.
21:19 🔗 zino (Only a guess)
21:26 🔗 DFJustin nah it's tongue-in-cheeck bad english for "make something into a script"
21:26 🔗 DFJustin compare "embiggen" from an episode of the simpsons
21:54 🔗 zino That's a perfectly cromulent word!
21:58 🔗 SketchCow Yes, fairly sure it's a play off embiggen
22:03 🔗 bai that's what I read, yeah
22:03 🔗 bai it's covered in the faq or the docs somewhere
22:04 🔗 bai or maybe there was a mailing list post
22:04 🔗 SketchCow Thank goodness I nearly never have to answer why I name half my things
22:24 🔗 db48x :)
22:25 🔗 SketchCow I am in the process of moving machines; FOS as we know it going away.
22:25 🔗 SketchCow This will be a huge pain in the ass.
22:26 🔗 SketchCow The only saving grace is that the machines are up simultaenously.
22:33 🔗 SketchCow Vito`: I'm just going to respond here.
22:48 🔗 Vito` https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=753184
22:49 🔗 Vito` embiggen reference wins
23:02 🔗 SketchCow So, as you've by no doubt figured out by now - the field of video game preservation is kind of a mess, and we're one of the vanguards of it; we're literally in the elite corps of folks doing anything tangible.
23:02 🔗 SketchCow (Sorry, got pulled away there.)
23:02 🔗 SketchCow I am wondering if you mean video game HISTORY or in actual preservation of old video games.
23:03 🔗 SketchCow Very few formal groups. Strong Museum of Play, UTexas, Stanford, etc. And almost all are interested or functioning in game as artifact.
23:03 🔗 SketchCow Attempts to gather interviews are almost always being done randomly.
23:03 🔗 SketchCow As a result, Kevin Savetz' anthropological interviews stand as a massive set.
23:04 🔗 SketchCow https://archive.org/details/ANTIC_podcast
23:04 🔗 SketchCow If you're looking for something specific, I can see what I can find.
23:05 🔗 SketchCow for what it's worth, one of my 13,000,000 side projects is this collection: https://archive.org/details/softwarepreservation
23:18 🔗 Vito` Oh you're replying to my email gotcha
23:19 🔗 SketchCow Yeah
23:19 🔗 SketchCow I have gotten very behind on my mail.
23:19 🔗 SketchCow I don't do very well on open-ended questions. not at all.
23:20 🔗 SketchCow I will be in a better place once these documentary monkeys are off my back.
23:20 🔗 SketchCow Endless stress.
23:22 🔗 SketchCow So I have this mailbox of requests and I'm down to the largest ones that are basically projects in themselves.
23:23 🔗 SketchCow I assume you're doing some sort of thing, based on your questions.
23:24 🔗 Vito` SketchCow: yeah, just looking for names and institutions doing actual preservation, so I can see what they've published and where, so I can see if those places will accept a paper from me
23:24 🔗 Vito` Not history, but archival/storage/emulation/presentation
23:27 🔗 DFJustin Stiletto in #archiveteam would be a good one to ask, I think there was an EU government thing but I forget the url
23:27 🔗 DFJustin all of the big orgs are pretty useless I think but if you just want to get something officially issued
23:29 🔗 Vito` yeah looking for an actual formal academic journal or conference proceeding to get something into
23:29 🔗 Vito` figure they probably also publish in humanities things not just library science
23:30 🔗 Vito` hence looking for people who would have published, so I can see where they've done so
23:37 🔗 SketchCow You're going to keep finding it "scant"
23:39 🔗 SketchCow (Spoiler? Spoiler.)
23:39 🔗 SketchCow There's a number of books, but they generally talk about digital preservation.
23:39 🔗 SketchCow And they will mostly mention us and EaaS
23:39 🔗 SketchCow Welcome to the big leagues
23:40 🔗 Vito` okay, I'll start with those places and looking for the book and their authors
23:40 🔗 Vito` *books
23:42 🔗 Vito` thanks
23:54 🔗 balrog there was the KEEP project which ran for three years then shut down
23:54 🔗 balrog http://www.egdf.eu/17-2-2012-keep-final-conference/
23:55 🔗 balrog http://web.archive.org/web/20150308151240/http://www.keep-project.eu:80/ezpub2/index.php
23:55 🔗 DFJustin yeah I think that's what I was thinking of
23:55 🔗 balrog (their website is defunct)
23:55 🔗 balrog (which is kinda ironic)
23:55 🔗 balrog sets mode: +oooo db48x DFJustin devesine godane
23:55 🔗 DFJustin l o l
23:55 🔗 balrog sets mode: +ooo Lord_Nigh Rai-chan zino

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