[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] November 2009

[Andrew Armstrong]

I basically forgot since no one replied (Well, one person replied, sent 
me onto someone else who supposedly maintained it, who never replied). 
If you're up for putting a second copy on the archive once this 
collection is approved, that'd be awesome :) (email me off list so I 
know or not - I'm happy to eventually get around to uploading things, 
but I don't have the time right now).

Andrew

Mike Melanson wrote:

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>> 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).

>

> Funny you should mention this. Just this past week, I finally got 

> around to visiting all of the game pages on http://liberatedgames.org/ 

> (which doesn't seem to be maintained anymore), followed all the links, 

> and downloaded everything I could. The maintainer had mirrored a lot 

> of files @ atomicgamer.com which is a pain to download from. I went 

> ahead and paid a $5 monthly subscription fee to get easy access to the 

> files.

>

> I hope to upload them all to my own webspace soon so that others can 

> more easily download them. I think these acquisitions tally about 7 GB 

> total. I also have a file full of dead links that I need to chase down 

> from other sources (hopefully).

>