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Oh, absolutely. I applaud it, just I've seen several sites I used to
visit for games now shut down or "lose files", which is never fun.<br>
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One thing is that since EA, or someone at Mythic allowed it, they'd
probably be okay with doing it again sometime in the future or
something. Who knows? Might be a nice precedent to say "hey, these guys
were able to do some real good, why can't you?" :)<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Vowell, Zachary W wrote:
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I think you’re right to be wary, Andrew, but fortunately I think the
WCNews/Origin Museum are a great example of Henry’s pt-boats (if you’ll
recall his analogy of academic battleships and collector/hobbyist
pt-boats). They’re very serious about preserving these records for
history, and to that end have put a lot of time into organizing the
materials that they receive, and in talking with them it’s even
possible that they will provide duplicate files to one or more archives.<br>
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They have to make sure it’s alright with EA before doing so, but they
understand the instability of digital records, and so I think this will
indeed turn out to be a triumph in the long run. <br>
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But man, I’m crossing my fingers about Mythic keeping the physical
objects/hard copies too. That would be a shame if they threw anything
away.<br>
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-- <br>
Zach Vowell<br>
Archivist, UT Videogame Archive<br>
Center for American History<br>
512.495.4405<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.utvideogamearchive.org">http://www.utvideogamearchive.org</a><br>
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