[game_preservation] Preservation of analogue game media

[Kieron Wilkinson]

Hello all,

I'd quite like to ask a question of those working in libraries and  
archives who are actively preserving games provided on floppy disks.  
Is anyone here doing this? I guess this is going to become relevent to  
the KEEP project (excellent news Andreas!), as it gets going.

I'm really just wanting to get some feedback on how this is currently  
being done. Mainly I'm wondering what kind of hardware and software  
you are using to do it? It would be interesting to find out if there  
are any commonly-used approaches.

I don't want to pre-empt the discussion too much, but there does seem  
to be a number of common technical problems in preserving game media.  
Ultimately I'd like to start a discussion on whether there could ever  
be an accepted standard solution that could cover everything so nobody  
needed to worry about it again... (well, I'm sure it would certainly  
save pain for everyone)

Kieron Wilkinson

P.S. I do apologise for not being around for quite a while. I had some  
health issues shortly after taking over from Simon, and only sparingly  
touched a computer for quite some time (I'm fine now).