[game_preservation] 1974 Atari memo by Jobs

[Jim Leonard]

On 2/14/2013 3:14 PM, Devin Monnens wrote:

> And it's not an isolated incident.


Unfortunately this happens even with sources are "verified".  For 
example, the recent discussion on the sofware collector's mailing list 
on who programmed the TRS-80 CoCo3 version of King's Quest III and LSL, 
the information cited on MobyGames is apparently wrong, even though 
MobyGames does its best to verify sources against either the game's 
manual or program output (ie. credits printed in-game).  In the CoCo3 
case, it's really a puzzle because the manual must be wrong, and to make 
things more puzzling, the program code itself has the string "CoCo3 
version by Chris Iden" embedded in it but Chris Iden himself has no 
recollection of working on the port.

I have no solution, just making note of a problem that affects more than 
wikipedia (and, I would assume, other historians in other disciplines).
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