[game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

[Jim Leonard]

Adding to this, I have a complete dump of Microprose's BBS/FTP which has 
patches for pretty much everything they made.  However, I'm just one 
person; hopefully there is someplace someone can recommend I upload it...

Captain Commando wrote:

> 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 

> <mailto: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:

>>

>>      

>>

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

>>

>>      

>>

>>     Stuart

>>

>>      

>>

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

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

>>     [mailto: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.

>>

>>      

>>

>>     http://www.oldversion.com/

>>

>>

>>     -Devin Monnens

>>

>>

>>     -- 

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>>

>>     "Until next time..."

>>     Captain Commando

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