[game_preservation] An Awful Lot of Preservation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Wow, amazing work :D

UK news; there is going to be a "Video Game Arcade", an offshoot of the 
National Video Game Archive, in Nottingham setup by next March. I think 
that a few of them are on this list...

Andrew

On 01/11/2014 23:22, Alex Handy wrote:
>
> Jason, sir... you rock!
>
> On Nov 1, 2014 4:19 PM, "Martin Goldberg" <wgungfu at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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