[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] November 2009

[swizzle at dosmuseum.com]

Andrew,

I would be more than happy to help out with any archive.org project  
involving this material.  I spend a large amount of time on my  
project, and it would be great to have the files/information  
accessible to a wider audience.

Let me know what I can do.

Bill

Quoting Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>:


> Awesome Bill, didn't know about that site. I've added it to the

> resources section and as a link in the project page for that.

>

> Sometime in the future (farrrr fuuutrreee, when I have magical

> unlimitteddd tiimmeee :) ) I planned on getting an Archive.org

> collection for free games, as a pure repository. I'll certainly keep

> your project and site in mind when it comes to adding to this (but if

> you were interested, could work on it sooner rather then later I guess,

> if you want some download mirrors and a good backed up place for the

> files you do put up ;) all it mainly needs is the insane amount of time

> it takes to upload files).

>

> Thanks for informing us!

>

> Andrew

>

> swizzle at dosmuseum.com wrote:

>> Andrew,

>>

>> Looking through the website I found the Game Preservation   

>> SIG/Projects page, and would like to request my website be included  

>>  under Playing Videogames Projects: Freeware, Open Games, Legal   

>> Digital Copies of Games

>>

>> My website is DOS Museum (http://www.dosmuseum.com).  I host   

>> primarily freeware, shareware, and playable demos of DOS games.    

>> The goal of the website is to track down copyright holders and get   

>> as many full versions as possible released as freeware.  I've been   

>> very successful when I can track down a copyright holder (and they   

>> are not a large company of course).

>>

>> Thanks!

>> Bill

>>

>> Quoting Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>:

>>

>>> Halloween, and for those int he UK, Bonfire night! Well, going a bit

>>> off topic already...anyway, we have had the new IGDA website launch,

>>> but not honestly much else I'm afraid!

>>>

>>>

>>>     Preservation SIG October 2009 Work

>>>

>>> There hasn't been much work this month. The IGDA website however has

>>> been revamped - well, replaced entirely in fact. There is an important

>>> thing the SIG might be able to do that is preserve the old site, as it

>>> can be, externally to the IGDA's own servers. I'm going to track down

>>> this properly this month.

>>>

>>> The new preservation SIG location is the same url as before:

>>> http://www.igda.org/preservation - and the wiki remains present (old

>>> links will redirect to it's new subdomain location).

>>>

>>> Join the SIG there - not for much to do, since we mainly post what

>>> little we do on the mailing list, but it will be the new location for

>>> monthly roundups and news. I've looked and couldn't find an RSS feed,

>>> which will be one of the things I've got to ask about.

>>>

>>> If you are interested in helping the SIG work you can handily volunteer

>>> for some projects <http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG>, or

>>> create your own if something is missing!

>>>

>>>

>>>     Future Work for November 2009

>>>

>>> It's mid-November. It's nearly a new year in fact. We need to perhaps

>>> think about properly rounding up the projects, putting all of the ones

>>> which are basically dead to the depths of idea-realm, and knowing if

>>> anyone wants to actually work on anything. I'm happy with things just

>>> being a discussion group, but if people do sign up for projects we

>>> might need to think about having them report it monthly, me included! :)

>>>

>>>

>>>     Mailing List Discussions

>>>

>>> If you've not joined our mailing list

>>> <http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation>, please do

>>> so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick to

>>> old-fangled email. This will eventually change when the IGDA site has

>>> some replacement for it, which won't be anytime soon.

>>>

>>> September

>>> <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-October/thread.html>   

>>> had

>>> [hhttp://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-October/001433.html me ranting about glossaries mainly], redump mentioned which we   

>>> didn't

>>> discuss before

>>> <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-October/001446.html>, and finally the white paper was briefly blogged by someone at Wired <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-October/001457.html>. I know it's a bit after the start of November but I'll get to those posts in next months    

>>> roundup

>>> :)

>>>

>>>

>>>     Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links

>>>

>>> /Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to

>>> preservation_news @ igda.org !/

>>>

>>>   * /Site changeover - nothing to post./

>>>

>>>

>>>     Final Thoughts

>>>

>>> We'll be using the wiki still to post pages - the new site is a bit

>>> anti-posting-pages, but have a look around what's up with the changes

>>> and make sure to report any bugs sooner rather then later :)

>>>

>>> Andrew Armstrong

>>>

>>> IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor

>>

>>

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