[game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

[Stuart Feldhamer]

That reminds me of what I think is another good resource for preservation:

 

www.gamecopyworld.com

 

The site contains various "no-CD/no-DVD" patches that let you run games
without the original disk in the drive.

 

Made for pirates, but valuable for archivists.

 

Stuart

 

From: Captain Commando [mailto:evilcowclone at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:52 PM
To: stuart at feldhamer.com; IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

 

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,

 

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

 

Stuart

 

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

 

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:

 

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

 

Stuart

 

From: 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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