[game_preservation] Preservation of analogue game media

[Devin Monnens]

Oh, so then I suppose the whole 'look at what your own company is doing
already, isn't it cool!' bit was completely unnecessary :)


I personally think standardising the methodology, metadata and storage of

> the software is certainly important if there was worldwide collaboration.

>


Well yeah, this is something we totally need to do after the white paper is
published. This is something I bring up from time to time. If we can't
standardize everything, then what's the point in having collaborative
archives?


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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). 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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