[game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

[Captain Commando]

Well, this is a start. It doesn't contain a WIDE range of games, mostly
popular ones (but also some odd ones like Microprose's Magic the Gathering).
Missing a few like Ultima, Freespace, and X-Wing vs Tie Fighter that I've
had to google for. In addition, it only includes the most recent patches.
The patch collection I am talking about would have as many patch versions as
possible (hopefully with information on what got patched with each version).
If you want to preserve PC games, you really need to keep patches in mind. I
wouldn't be able to give you a lot of reasons for why older patches would be
incredibly important (unless newer patches had certain bugs that weren't
manifest in older patches on some hardware), but again, you never know
what's going to be important thirty years from now.

-Devin

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  Ooh, awesome. I honestly have never seen that before, despite sometimes

> searching for patches for a fair while. Files seem to be hosted on

> http://dlh.net/ , interesting.

>

> The site only has 383 games with patch pages, I wonder how many patches

> they have total, hard to see from the A-Z listings (although it's great to

> see a news archive going back to 1995, wow!)

>

> Anyone got any more of these sites, please post them :)

>

> Andrew

>

> Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

>

>  There is such an archive:

>

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> http://www.patches-scrolls.de/

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> Stuart

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> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org [

> mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org<game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>]

> *On Behalf Of *Captain Commando

> *Sent:* Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:41 PM

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

> *Subject:* [game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

>

>

>

> I think OldVersion.com was listed on the resource list awhile back, but I'm

> going to pull it up again. This site archives old versions of computer

> software and utilities like Flash and Winamp. Similarly, I think it would be

> useful to have an archive of game patches. It's a bit difficult to locate

> patches for some of my older games, but it can also be useful and

> historically significant to run older patches of computer games.

>

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>

> http://www.oldversion.com/

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>

> -Devin Monnens

>

>

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> "Until next time..."

> Captain Commando

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