[game_preservation] Preservation of analogue game media

[Devin Monnens]

Kieron,

The first place to start is the Software Preservation Society (
www.softpres.org). They are interested in authenticity of the disks they
back up and so have developed hardware to detect whether the disk has been
written to or not. There is a lot of good information on the site, and one
of the project's members is part of the SIG mailing list.

-Devin

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Kieron Wilkinson <lists at softpres.org> wrote:


>

> 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).

>

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