[game_preservation] On Disk Monthy (Big Blue Disk) issue with the game Bubba Goes West

[Henry Borchers]

Hi Devin,

 

On Disk Monthly or more commonly known as the "Big Blue Disk" was a disk
magazine of utilities and games for mainly DOS. I think they had windows
programs later on but my memory is fuzzy as I was only in elementary school
at the time. According to Wikipedia. it ran from 1986 to 1998.  It is mainly
known now for being a starting point for ID Soft and Apogee developers such
as Scott Miller,  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack> John
Carmack,  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero> John Romero etc.

 

Thanks,

Henry Borchers

 

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Devin Monnens
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:12 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] On Disk Monthy (Big Blue Disk) issue with
the game Bubba Goes West

 

Hi Henry,

Yeah, GDC is super-expensive. I'm only going because I got a pass from
elsewhere! Anyway, I had wanted to try running skype at the conference, but
my laptop seems to have issues with the sound card since I updated the OS
(that and we don't know if there's internet in the meeting room). On the
other hand, I can see if we can record the session and put the audio and/or
video online. In the future, I really think we should experiment with remote
conferencing.

I've forwarded your question to one other source. If you've got the
platform, that helps, too! (sorry, not sure what One Disk Monthly is...).
Other than that, SPS might be familiar with it.

-Devin

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Henry Borchers <henryborchers at yahoo.com>
wrote:

Hello,

 

I'm a Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image student at the
University of Amsterdam and I've chosen to write my master's thesis on video
game preservation. I am dedicating a section of my thesis on the loss of
video games and comparing it to the loss of early cinema. As an small case
study, I'm trying to locate a game from my childhood. I wanted to pick
something that wasn't a console game. Instead I wanted to focus on disk
magazines since it's relatively forgotten or unknown to my generation. I
know I'm not picking an easy target because it is something that took me 10
years of personal research in my free time to even remember the title. There
are only about 5 hits on Google that even match the name of the specific
game. Nevertheless, I figured it'd be a good example for my thesis. 

 

It is for this reason, I'm asking the community for your help. I am
wondering if anybody knows of any archive that has any information about
which On Disk Monthly (aka The big blue disk) issue the game "Bubba Goes
West" was featured on. Even better, if any knows if an archive has this in
their collection. Any information would be great. 

 

Sincerely,

Henry Borchers

Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image Master's Student

University of Amsterdam

 

PS. I really wanted to go to GDC for the talk on bit rot but holy moly,
that's way out of my budget as a student.

 


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