[game_preservation] Old PC Game Sales for XP/Vista

[Andrew Armstrong]

Yeah, sadly I'm tempted by LucasArts stuff being up on there. Ho hum :( 
(luckily I already have DoTT and Sam and Max :D ).

Andrew

Rachel Donahue wrote:

> True, I wouldn't consider it preservation. But speaking purely as a 

> gamer, it's still a decent place for a king's quest fix!

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> On Jul 25, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> 

> wrote:

>

>> Man, no, not Steam, not for us preservationists! might as well 

>> suggest EA's download service, hoho...

>>

>> I've got to seriously suggest we do a paper or some research on the 

>> use of online DRM and DRM in general and how it basically makes our 

>> jobs impossible. :D I was going to do a basic post/wiki page on it, 

>> but finding actual concrete information on what DRM is applied, 

>> company policy and so forth is nearly impossible - all the news is 

>> bloody vague, a nightmare for research on a topic no company wants to 

>> literally come out with "WE OWN THE RIGHT TO STOP YOU USING OUR STUFF 

>> IMMEDIATELY". I perhaps will suggest this as a project to investigate 

>> - and go out journalistic-ly with this SIG's backing to get some 

>> information on all the DRM currently used. :)

>>

>> Good Old Games I featured on our news feed when it opened last year, 

>> by the way :) I've not had the chance to buy anything from it (I have 

>> tons of games left to play), but they are DRM free, which is awesome! 

>> I agree prices can be a bit heavy sometimes, but it looks like it'll 

>> be a good resource if it hangs around (and if it doesn't, anything 

>> you have downloaded won't magically go poof :) ).

>>

>> BTW, if no one knows about it (and I'm trying to contact them, but 

>> man is it slow), Liberated Games still has a catalogue of free games: 

>> http://liberatedgames.org/

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>> Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

>>> There's also Steam :)

>>> http://store.steampowered.com/

>>>

>>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:35:00 -0400, Devin Monnens 

>>> <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>

>>>> My friend just sent me this website that sells classic PC games for 

>>>> low

>>>> prices. I'm not sure how this relates to preservation, but it's 

>>>> great to see

>>>> a lot of the old titles still available. (Personally, I think some 

>>>> of the

>>>> prices should be lower though...)

>>>> http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/

>>>>

>>>

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