[game_preservation] Recreating game development environments

[Andrew Armstrong]

Yeah, absolutely. I looked up the documentation and it is really the 
option to "delete" really :)

I was referring to the DMCA-led software preservation thing: 
http://www.archive.org/about/dmca.php (the page is out of date, I have 
no idea where the project page is either. IA is impossible to easily 
search, ironically). I think I asked you about it before Simon, but 
can't find the email.

It would mean some physical access was required by Zachary or any of us 
to make use of any of it, but there we go, possibly better then nothing.

Andrew

Simon Carless wrote:

> I'm probably the last person who touched 'dark archiving' at the 

> Internet Archive, two or three years ago. It doesn't really work well 

> with the IA's current system because either an item is COMPLETELY dark 

> (no description or listing page for it) or completely online. Anything 

> else is a hack which is wont to break. So if anything else was done 

> with the Internet Archive it might be best to do it outside of the 

> existing collections system which is used for the game video content:

>

> http://www.archive.org/details/gamevideos

>

> Thanks,

> Simon.