[game_preservation] Digital Press kickstarting a videogame history museum

[Devin Monnens]

Now I think that's fantastic!

With this in mind, would it be possible to take the original disk that's
become unreadable and rewrite to it? From my understanding, the magnetic
structure of the disk itself has decayed, but the ability of the disk to be
rewritten to has not...

This (along with floppy drive emulators) raises interesting questions for
the preservation of games. Maintaining original hardware becomes more
feasible, but since both hardware and software is so old, how easy is it to
get copies of the games? If your copy doesn't work, can you legally download
an IPF? Or, will companies who own the software be interested in selling or
otherwise distributing copies?

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:36 AM, István Fábián <if at caps-project.org> wrote:


> Hi All,

>

> You can take preservation one step further: re-create the original artefact

> now.

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=ypT_H-Dg3bs<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypT_H-Dg3bs>

>

> In other words, KryoFlux is no longer constrained to reading, it can write

> back authentic IPF disk images, just like the games you'd have bought 20

> years ago with every bit including any kind of on-disk copy-protection

> intact.

> You can now use those IPF files for emulation as well as a gold master for

> remastering a disk.

> This being a shameless self-plug, I'd like to ask anyone who is in the

> position, to consider helping our preservation efforts.

>

> Thanks,

> István

>

> www.softpres.org

> www.kryoflux.com

>

>

>

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