[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] February 2010

[Andrew Armstrong]

A /very/ late posting of the newsletter, sorry! Quick bunch of things to 
go through.


      Preservation SIG January 2010 Work

Nothing much to report here. Mainly, make note of the GDC roundtable 
<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2010-February/001657.html> 
coming up - it's on Thursday (March 11th), 9am, in Room 1.

If you are interested in helping the SIG work you can handily volunteer 
for some projects <http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG>, or 
create your own if something is missing!


      Future Work for February 2010

Please feel free to comment on the usefulnes sof the SIG's activities 
(or lack thereof) and why you're a member on our mailing list 
<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2010-February/001682.html>. 
I'd certainly like to hear your comments!

It's the end of the month right now - but forthcoming, not much planned. 
People will be getting to GDC however in March, so hopefully some good 
will come from that meetup! :)


      Mailing List Discussions

If you've not joined our mailing list 
<http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation>, please do 
so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick to 
old-fangled email. This will eventually change when the IGDA site has 
some replacement for it, which won't be anytime soon.

February 
<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2010-February/thread.html> 
lists some great things going on around in preservation. A public beta 
of KryoFlux, a machine for getting disk images from old floppy disks, 
has been completed by the Software Preservation Society. Additionally

For things to read; Melanie Swalwell 
<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2010-February/001661.html> 
posts about her article called "Towards the Preservation of Local 
Computer Game Software: Challenges, strategies, reflections". 
Additionally there is a The Atlantic 
<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2010-February/001663.html> 
article, and a lot of articles related to physical preservation 
<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2010-February/001678.html> 
of items too.


      Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links

/Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to 
preservation_news @ igda.org !/

    * No news, I'll get around to more frequent updates of the news feed
      but we have asked for but still not got a "Preservation SIG" RSS
      feed, so can't offer anything but the general IGDA one yet!


      Final Thoughts

Hope those who make it to GDC have a good roundtable, and expect Henry 
to post some thoughts from it after the event next month!

Andrew Armstrong

IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor

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