[game_preservation] Abandonware

[Andrew Armstrong]

Interesting piece (it's from 2000, I doubt much has changed apart from 
the move from Usenet/IRC to websites and the change of name to "ESA"), 
goes into a lot of detail on the American side of it, I wonder if 
parallel organisations in Europe/Asia act the same way.

However, do you personally think it is a good idea for the SIG to be 
interested at all in the area or should we ignore it or what? Should the 
sites be listed, or material gathered about what they are doing over 
time, or just ignore the phenomenon? Would it ever be "okay" to discuss 
it in detail on this mailing list, for instance, or on the IGDA forums?

Thanks for the article link in any case Mike, I should really categorise 
the Mobygames features articles into the resource list properly.

Andrew

Mike Melanson wrote:

> Trixter (Jim Leonard) has thought a lot more about this than most of us: