[game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History MuseumKickstarter short on funds

[István Fábián]

Hi Richard,

We've invested 10 years of R&D into preserving the digital content and can read out, analyse and preserve anything from disk media - the most challenging type for preservation.
The technology is very similar to how the disks were duplicated in the first place.
The results can be used under software emulation, hardware emulation, mixed environments, and even written back to a real disk, so you could actually showcase the real hardware with a working disk as needed, without damaging the original.

So The time you've bought so far could actually be used for good and it can be done NOW :)

We'd be interested in working together with you to preserve your game or any other collection.
Please let me know your thoughts on this; feel free to use my email.

Kind regards,
István Fábián

www.softpres.org
www.kryoflux.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pugh, Richard 
  To: 'IGDA Game Preservation SIG' 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:56 PM
  Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History MuseumKickstarter short on funds


  We've been looking into various means of preserving our game collection at the 1 and 0 level, but as with many other places, cost -  materials, time and labor - prevent us from doing anything major at this time.

   

  Most of the materials housed at NAVCC are in climate-controlled storage vaults.  The bulk of our materials are film and recorded sound, including highly volatile nitrate.  It gets pretty cold back there.  Our game collection is in one of these climate-controlled areas.  Disks can be preserved in such conditions, but it could be argued that doing so simply postpones the inevitable.

   

  I prefer to think of it as buying some time.  :)

   

  Retaining the outdated computer hardware for things like 5.25" floppy drives isn't something we can do with any consistency.  Our IT people are spread thin as it is.  We have been looking into using disc "images" in conjunction with emulation software to keep the old games as least partially useable.  We haven't been able to do much research into this option, but initial findings were very encouraging.

   

  Still, I don't think there is an easy answer for this one.  The magnetic film on floppy disks deteriorates over time, and nothing can stop that.  The process can be slowed down by using cold storage (q.v.), but it can't be stopped.  

   

  And that is a puzzlement.

   

   

  Richard J. Pugh

  Motion Picture, Broadcast, & Recorded Sound Division

  National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress

  (202) 707-6636 / rpugh at loc.gov



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