[game_preservation] Recreating game development environments

[Andrew Armstrong]

Just to cover this; as far as I am aware starting my work on a "List of 
places which accept things to preserve" as I discussed previously here, 
it is important for sure, but has the same problems as anything else; 
people don't have the things any more, they can't reliably send them in 
(legal issues, company legal issues, time or money issues), or don't 
even know they can be preserved or have any value as 3 core reasons.

Since I am not old enough to know however, I could be wrong and there 
might be a very good reason :) but I doubt it. If you do know anyone 
with this kind of stuff or can advocate people to get it sent to 
archives, great :)

While they are also more "ripe" in their way, I'd think personally that 
the tools themselves are next to useless without the original game 
assets/code in any case, so if the former can be preserved it is in no 
doubt the latter can be too.

Would be good to get something sorted on the IA regarding game 
software/tools/code/assets availability (to put up tools like, say, the 
Doom ones or others), or see what their dark archive works on and has on 
this - I've not ever spoken directly to whoever is working on that 
though, so I couldn't say who to contact for information on it. It might 
be worth a shot however.

Andrew

Vowell, Zachary W wrote:

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>

>     Yes, but doesn't the fact that they're in-house make them all the

>     more "ripe" for preservation?  (i.e., they're closer to the brink

>     of oblivion than publicly distributed tools/editors/assets).  I do

>     agree it'll be a stroke of luck to find stuff like this, though.

>

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