[game_preservation] Blog about Video Capture project

[Christian Bartsch | softpres.org]

Adressing the problem of copy protection here... has there been 
analysation been performed to check if

a) a protection is present
b) if yes, has the protection itself been verified

?

Many protections use recording scheme violations, some disguise as plain 
system ("DOS") disks and the clever ones fail later in gameplay (and not 
right at the start).

Have these 7800 games been properly imaged (=creation of digital 
containers for long term preservation), or have these just been loaded 
and played on the original systems?

--Chris

Christian Bartsch
The Software Preservation Society
http://www.softpres.org

Am 10/09/2013 18:57, schrieb Dyson, Jon-Paul:

> Andreas,

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> The project is still in process so I'm not in a position to share final numbers or specific breakdowns by system/material type but so far of the more than 7800 pre-2005 games we've tested there has been an initial failure rate of around 2.75%. That reflects some degree of remediation (e.g. cleaning and retesting) but not extensive work on games to see if we can make them work.

>

> Henry might have some numbers to share from his new imaging project. Henry do you have numbers?

>

> JP

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