[game_preservation] Older versions of Programs

[Captain Commando]

I love this already.

Now with this in mind, what's SIG members' opinions regarding ISO archival
versus storage of individual files on the disc? This is applicable to both
game discs and music CDs. Videogame music, for example - I was debating on
suggesting FLAC or just ISO the disc for the archival backup. FLAC has the
advantage of already being in a format that can be accessed by media
players, though ISO might contain some information that could get lost in
the lossless conversion process.

-DM

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Stuart Feldhamer <
stuart.feldhamer at gmail.com> wrote:


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

> preservation:

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> www.gamecopyworld.com

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> The site contains various "no-CD/no-DVD" patches that let you run games

> without the original disk in the drive.

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> Made for pirates, but valuable for archivists.

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> Stuart

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> *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

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

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> That would have been because I was looking in the Games Index. Obviously

> they do not have every single game listed in there :-)

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> -Devin

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> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Stuart Feldhamer <

> stuart.feldhamer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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

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> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

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> *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.

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> -Devin

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

> wrote:

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> 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.

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> 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!)

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

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> 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

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> 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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