[game_preservation] Preservation of analogue game media

[Andrew Armstrong]

Kerion is actually someone who was a past SIG leader in fact (who 
brought this up then, but couldn't work on it due to a bad case of RSI 

:( ), and is a member of the Software Preservation Society (and there is 

another one of them on here who's not made himself known I've been told). :)

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Kieron,

>

> The first place to start is the Software Preservation Society 

> (www.softpres.org <http://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 

> <mailto: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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