[game_preservation] An Awful Lot of Preservation

[Martin Goldberg]

Thanks for all your (and everyone at the IA) hard work preserving this
material and making it accessible.  It's appreciated.
On Nov 1, 2014 6:15 PM, "Jason Scott" <jason at textfiles.com> wrote:

> As glanced upon by my rant at the SIG meeting at GDC this year, the
> Internet Archive has now released, in various bits, a lot of what I was
> talking about at the time:
>
> THE SOFTWARE LIBRARY is meant to be an ultimately-comprehensive collection
> of software for various platforms - right now it has huge chunks of Atari
> 8-Bit, Apple II Family, and ZX Spectrum up, as well as playable. Apple II
> goes farther and has over a thousand floppies from user groups, as does the
> Atari 8-Bit (Pool Disks). Combined with the JSMESS emulator, many are
> playable. Combined with the Screen Shotgun (an automatic player of items in
> the emulator), many have screenshots.
> http://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary
>
> THE INTERNET ARCADE is a collection of arcade games. It's the logical
> other half of JSMESS, which is JSMAME - a porting of MAME to Javascript.
> Frankly, it was many times easier than JSMESS, which is why I wasn't
> interested in making that the first big thing going on. But now we've been
> up for a year, so it's time. 900 arcade games.
> http://archive.org/details/internetarcade
>
> THE CONSOLE LIVING ROOM was announced last year, but I've expanded it out
> to 21 different game consoles, from early 1970s pieces through to a few
> Sega masterpieces of the 1990s and even a 2000-era (obscure) one. It's
> 2,300 games, also with screenshots.
> http://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom
>
> Finally, PLAYDRONE is an outside project I am proud to have helped get
> onto the archive. A group of researchers are downloading EVERY Android app
> on the Play store, and EVERY intermediate version before and after. For a
> total of 500,000 apps so far. All the metadata. So for the concerns about
> "What about phones".... well here we are.
> https://archive.org/details/android_apps
>
> Anyway, been busy. Enjoy.
>
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