[game_preservation] Nottingham Trent starting Archive

Andrew Armstrong andrew at aarmstrong.org
Fri Jun 6 10:34:18 EDT 2008


I'll add it to the resource list. It seems the "Great list of
programmers" was added when you suggested that, but I didn't poke around
the site for anything else.

Interesting stuff, certainly would be more interesting if I ever owned
an Atari console though ;-)

Andrew

Captain Commando wrote:

> Of equally impressive note is Halcyon Days (which may or may not be on

> the resource list - but it definitely belongs there!)

>

> http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/

>

> It is a series of interviews with Atari programmers first published on

> diskette in 1997 (for $20!) but now distributed for free.

>

> -DM

>

> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Andrew Armstrong

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

> >From the blog:

>

> Good news for anyone lamenting the lack of UK game archives, from

> the Gamasutra Podcast with Iain Simons

> <http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18719>:

>

> And he closes with Nottingham Trent University Undergraduate

> and Post-graduate programs' support of GameCity's latest

> project: an archive of early to current game artifacts and

> history.

>

>

> I'll post more news when it becomes available, and find out for

> myself if it takes too long ;-)

>

> At least it's one UK initiative which is a good step in the right

> direction! :-D

>

> Andrew

>

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