[game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

[Andrew Armstrong]

Trust me, if I could ever get a budget to do that myself, I'd do it up 
in a flash (hell, start with an FTP and go from there). Maybe the IA 
could help if we were serious about it, they host some software after all.

I myself keep for all my PC games (although they don't date back 
"forever", heh), all patches I download. Finding them again is a pain - 
sometimes hours of pain. It's a hefty amount of gigabytes.

Excellent idea, if someone could do it sometime I'd be much impressed :) 
- while some game file hosting places do recent patches quite well (on 
the providing end) for distribution, and publishers usually provide a 
mirror themselves, older games get next to no love.

I'll note this for the links list at some point in any case (still on my 
todo list to sort out :) ).

Andrew

Captain Commando wrote:

> I think OldVersion.com was listed on the resource list awhile back, 

> but I'm going to pull it up again. This site archives old versions of 

> computer software and utilities like Flash and Winamp. Similarly, I 

> think it would be useful to have an archive of game patches. It's a 

> bit difficult to locate patches for some of my older games, but it can 

> also be useful and historically significant to run older patches of 

> computer games.

>

> http://www.oldversion.com/

>

> -Devin Monnens

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