[game_preservation] Preservation article

[Devin Monnens]

You should be able to read the Atlantic for a few weeks until the next issue
comes out. Being published in the Atlantic is HUGE - this is the equivalent
of say getting reported in the New Yorker. Kind of sad they don't mention
the White Paper, but all the regular suspects are there!

"One of the movement’s goals is a sort of universal card catalog for
software, which would allow any computer to access any game directly, no
matter its origins."

This line in particular I found interesting. What exactly does this mean by
'card catalog'? Is this a list of all software made, or a combination of
that and the virtual emulator that will run all software? I in particular am
interested in the catalog itself because I think a list of all software and
variations is valuable to a library.

-Devin

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> I'll be noting this and Melanie's articles down on the wiki and newsletter,

> thanks for posting them

>

> That was has nothing there specifically I've not read before but it's great

> to see people being asked about things like this! Great for the press to be

> interested. Melanie - do you want a copy of that article to be added to the

> IGDA wiki? (a in-between before I get this database thing finished ;) ), if

> not I'll just link tot hat Journal issue of course, although I can't read it

> just yet - I presume you need a University who has paid for access (not sure

> if where I work has this or not!). Looks interesting though!

>

> Andrew

>

>

> On 12/02/2010 04:54, Martin Goldberg wrote:

>

>> Not sure if this was mentioned on this list yet or not, but just in case:

>>

>> http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201003/archiving-video-games

>>

>>

>>

>> Marty

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