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> But regardless of these details, software has two main qualities that give it this advantage in terms of preservation: It's interactive It's deterministic No
by pol4ko 7y ago
> But regardless of these details, software has two main qualities that give it this advantage in terms of preservation: It's interactive It's deterministic
No sure if we are talking of the same thing here but a
Software is deterministic, but the randomness in a Game makes it non-deterministic, even if the emulation is deterministic. See, for exampe, a loot in a dungeon crawler. It will be different everytime.
- CompuHacker 7y agoThe randomness in games currently available boils down to picking from a set of very large numbers and executing a limited number of code paths. That is to say, there are no non-deterministic video games, because all outcomes must be programmed. A problem that can crop up with emulators is a lack of random seed values between runs, leading to, for example, a dungeon crawler with the same loot every time.