[game_preservation] An Awful Lot of Preservation

[Alex Handy]

Jason, sir... you rock!
On Nov 1, 2014 4:19 PM, "Martin Goldberg" <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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