<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Although I'm a newcomer to this list - I've been lurking here for a while - and had a couple of thoughts on this story. Since the WC team, Joe Garrity, and Dan Chisarick, among others, did such a wonderful job digitally archiving these materials, would any of the following ideas make sense:<div><br></div><div>- Speaking with Joe or the WC people to determine how they went about approaching EA and Mythic for the clearances on archiving the materials. It might make the job for future archival projects much, much easier.</div><div>- Possibly putting the WC team in contact with one of the software repositories, or physical archive projects, so that they don't have to bear the complete burden of storage.</div><div>- Assisting in some other way to disseminate archival material? Although I'm deeply appreciative of their efforts, the WCnews site is hardly an ideal place to disseminate materials.</div><div><br></div><div>Etc, etc. I'm just thinking out loud - I'd welcome any input, further ideas, or suggestions. Obviously the Game Preservation wiki is already loaded with ongoing projects, helping to take advantage of such a huge archive seems like an infinitely valuable opportunity.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>- Chris<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div>The Artful Gamer: In Search of the Lyrical and Poetic in Video Games</div><div><a href="http://www.artfulgamer.com">http://www.artfulgamer.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Oh, absolutely. I applaud it, just I've seen several sites I used to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">visit for games now shut down or "lose files", which is never fun.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One thing is that since EA, or someone at Mythic allowed it, they'd<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">probably be okay with doing it again sometime in the future or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">something. Who knows? Might be a nice precedent to say "hey, these guys<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">were able to do some real good, why can't you?" :)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Andrew</div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>