[game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

[Captain Commando]

That would have been because I was looking in the Games Index. Obviously
they do not have every single game listed in there :-)

-Devin

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Stuart Feldhamer <
stuart.feldhamer at gmail.com> wrote:


>  Devin,

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> I don't get it. I just searched and found patches for all of the games that

> you listed.

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> Stuart

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

> game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Captain Commando

> *Sent:* Sunday, October 12, 2008 6:56 PM

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

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

>

>

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> 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

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> Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

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> 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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>

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