[game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

[Jim Leonard]

There's this:

ftp://ftp.gamers.org/pub/archives/uwp-uml/

There's a Romulus archive inside it:

ftp://ftp.gamers.org/pub/archives/uwp-uml/romulus/

*THAT* has some pretty juicy (if old) stuff.

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Ooh, awesome. I honestly have never seen that before, despite sometimes 

> searching for patches for a fair while. Files seem to be hosted on 

> http://dlh.net/ , interesting.

> 

> The site only has 383 games with patch pages, I wonder how many patches 

> they have total, hard to see from the A-Z listings (although it's great 

> to see a news archive going back to 1995, wow!)

> 

> Anyone got any more of these sites, please post them :)

> 

> Andrew

> 

> Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

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>> There is such an archive:

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>> http://www.patches-scrolls.de/

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>> Stuart

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>> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org 

>> [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Captain 

>> Commando

>> *Sent:* Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:41 PM

>> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

>> *Subject:* [game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

>>

>>  

>>

>> 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.

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>> http://www.oldversion.com/

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>>

>> -Devin Monnens

>>

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>> -- 

>> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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>> "Until next time..."

>> Captain Commando

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