[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] November 2009

[Devin Monnens]

Would mailing a set of 2 DVDs be a bit more economical than transferring 7
GB of data? I could see that being an option for archives that want a full
collection. You could even PayPal for shipping.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> 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).

>>

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