[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] November 2009

[Mike Melanson]

I have the bandwidth and online storage space to burn. I'm still trying 
to decide how to organize this cache.

-- 
     -Mike Melanson



Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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 

> <mailto: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 <http://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).

> 

>     _______________________________________________

>     game_preservation mailing list

>     game_preservation at igda.org <mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>

>     http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

> 

> 

> 

> 

> -- 

> Devin Monnens

> www.deserthat.com <http://www.deserthat.com>

> 

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

> 

> 

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 

> _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing list

> game_preservation at igda.org

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation