[game_preservation] Old PC Game Sales for XP/Vista
Devin Monnens
dmonnens at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 14:15:36 EDT 2009
I haven't seen Full Throttle yet.
-Devin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:
> 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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