[game_preservation] White Paper blogged by Bruce Sterling!

[Jan Baart]

Sorry to dig this one up, didn't see it before. Why would anyone want 
more than their metadata up and running anyways? Possibly accompanied by 
some manuals, code tables etc. The games themselves? Half of them were 
butchered up versions that took ages to unpack anyways. It's not like 
they were actually doing a good preservational job. It might even be a 
blessing that the site's gone (although in fact it really isn't) and 
similar projects will have to rebuild a (hopefully more accurate) set of 
game backups.

Jan

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Oh, don't get me started on the splintered Underdogs thing. There are 

> a few sites that have the data running on them, lets leave it at that 

> to be honest.

>

> Good to see people posting about the white paper though! We'll need to 

> think of doing some more at some point as was said at the end of that 

> whitepaper.

>

> Andrew

>

> Devin Monnens wrote:

>> Bruce Sterling blogged the IGDA White Paper! Sadly, there's no 

>> commentary on it, just a big quote letting people know it's there. 

>> But it's still really great!

>>

>> http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/10/dead-media-beat-computer-game-preservation/

>>

>> Incidentally, he's also got a post on The Underdogs, which at least 

>> still seems to be there with the metadata, if not the games themselves.

>>

>> -- 

>> Devin Monnens

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