[game_preservation] An Awful Lot of Preservation

[Helen Stuckey]

An extraordinary achievement. Thank you Jason and team


On 3 November 2014 07:06, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

>  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> 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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