[game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History MuseumKickstarter short on funds

[Devin Monnens]

One lesson that I think is good to learn and easy to find out if you learn as you go is the equivalent of measure twice, cut once: do it right the first time so you don have to do it again later. This has happened to me with everything from CD backup (using MP3 rather than lossless, so I had to do it again this past year), scanning, and audio recording. So I learned the hard way to do lots of tests and verification before making backups :-) and of course wish I'd known all this in the first place...

As a result, I can seriously appreciate all the research that has gone into these tools. 

The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

On Aug 24, 2011, at 6:03 AM, "Christian Bartsch | softpres.org" <cb at softpres.org> wrote:


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> On 24 Aug 2011, at 00:41, Vincent Joguin wrote:

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>> http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi

>> Has been available for almost a decade and has been used for over 5 years for professional preservation of floppy disks. The associated FDI format is able to accurately store all             information from a floppy, and is supported by a number of emulators.

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> I would like quote a post by you made to the Software Collectors list (SWcollect on Google) on the 4th of August 2011 ("Re: [SWcollect] So, "that" Akalabeth..."):

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>> Unfortunately, no analysis tool exists           for FDI files, and this is indeed the strong point of the CAPS/SPS solution, although more information can be derived from an FDI.

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> I always look at things from two perspectives: data ingestion and preservation. I can accept people doing this for their own private collection, but not analysing data ingested and checking for authenticity and integrity to me feels grossly negligent in a professional environment meant to deal with preservation. If you don't know an asset is good, what will you do when you find out two decades later?

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> Again, I can understand that casual user going after disk2fdi for budgetary reasons, but I feel preservation needs to be done right. This would - to my understanding - include storing data as it was meant to be written (which only can be done after analysation). Otherwise you can't write it back to a disk (to e.g. create a clone for use in an exhibition) or simulate the effects certain protections have in emulation.

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> I would like to add that this is nothing personal, and also not meant as an attack on your tech. I just feel the word "preservation" is being used inflationary recently.

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