[game_preservation] An Awful Lot of Preservation

[Benj Edwards]

Jason,

     I second everything everyone else has said.  This kind of incredibly important work -- being done very well -- cannot be praised enough.  I can't wait to see what else you've got up your sleeve.  iOS maybe?

Benj

> On Nov 2, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Helen Stuckey <helen.stuckey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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