[game_preservation] Internet Archive Starts Archiving Commercial PC Games?

[Andrew Armstrong]

Maybe, or maybe someone is uploading them without the main people 
knowing. If you get upload rights to a collection they don't check 
everything after all :)

Andrew

On 08/12/2013 07:03, Mike Melanson wrote:

> The Internet Archive has been archiving numerous demo and magazine 

> CD-ROMs for a little while now. A month ago, they also launched the 

> Historical Software Archive which curates a selection of old software 

> deemed historically important.

>

> However, today I found the "IBM PC Compatible CD-ROMs" area, which is 

> a subsection of the Shareware CD Archive:

>

> https://archive.org/details/pc_cdrom

>

> Material includes all the Ultima games, System Shock, Syndicate, Sim 

> City, Space Hulk, X-Com, Dark Forces, Myst, 11th Hour, X-Wing, Tie 

> Fighter... the list goes on and on.

>

> All of these seem to have a release date of today (December 7). So 

> maybe they're planning a big announcement.