[game_preservation] The most significant development in the history of floppy game/software preservation!?

[István Fábián]

Hi Henry,

Long time no see...!

Prototype devices are already available or can be DIY built - we give full 
specifications and working software in the beta downloads.
Note, that the final device will have slightly different hardware design to 
better deal with older drives - but generally speaking it works as is right 
now.

We expect to have pre-built devices available early summer, please see this 
news item:
http://www.softpres.org/news:2010-02-24

Should you have any questions feel free to contact me directly or use our 
ticketing system:
http://www.softpres.org/contact

Kind regards,
Istvan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry E Lowood" <lowood at stanford.edu>
To: "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" <game_preservation at igda.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] The most significant development in the 
history of floppy game/software preservation!?



> Istvan,

>

> Is there an approximate date for availability of the hardware?

>

> Henry

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "István Fábián" <if at caps-project.org>

> To: "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" <game_preservation at igda.org>

> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:57:12 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] The most significant development in the 

> history of floppy game/software preservation!?

>

> Hi Jan and All,

>

> Glad you like it :)

>

> You can already download the software - currently beta 3, but beta 4 will

> probably be out this week - at:

> http://www.softpres.org/news:2010-02-19

>

> Our main goal has been preservation for the past 9 years and remains so, 

> in

> fact we've preserved 3000 Amiga games in their unaltered, factory new/gold

> master state.

>

> We plan to extend this effort to ALL (disk based) platforms, and KryoFlux 

> is

> an important part of making that to happen.

> Simply backing up disks (in any format) does not guarantee preservation,

> disks should be checked for authenticity (original, not modified in any 

> way)

> and integrity (data is correct) as well - both for which we have 

> technology

> developed throughout the past 9 years.

>

> We've come to the point with our project that it needs to be a dedicated

> full-time job; however this is something that we simply can't afford to do

> without the support of the communities, institutes and organizations, both

> financial as well as material help is needed.

>

> We'd truly appreciate any help we could get.

>

> Feel free to get in touch if you have any specific questions and would 

> like

> to contribute in any way.

> http://www.softpres.org/contact

>

> Kind regards,

> Istvan

>

>

>

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Jan Baart" <jan_baart at yahoo.de>

> To: <game_preservation at igda.org>

> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:28 PM

> Subject: [game_preservation] The most significant development in the 

> history

> of floppy game/software preservation!?

>

>

>> Finally it is here:

>>

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfT-F0GUl4

>>

>> I've been waiting for this for years now, can't wait to buy a final unit

>> from them and backup my hundreds of floppy games in a future safe format.

>>

>> , Jan

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