<div dir="ltr">Well, this is a start. It doesn't contain a WIDE range of games, mostly popular ones (but also some odd ones like Microprose's Magic the Gathering). Missing a few like Ultima, Freespace, and X-Wing vs Tie Fighter that I've had to google for. In addition, it only includes the most recent patches. The patch collection I am talking about would have as many patch versions as possible (hopefully with information on what got patched with each version). If you want to preserve PC games, you really need to keep patches in mind. I wouldn't be able to give you a lot of reasons for why older patches would be incredibly important (unless newer patches had certain bugs that weren't manifest in older patches on some hardware), but again, you never know what's going to be important thirty years from now.<br>
<br>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Ooh, awesome. I honestly have never seen that before, despite sometimes
searching for patches for a fair while. Files seem to be hosted on
<a href="http://dlh.net/" target="_blank">http://dlh.net/</a> , interesting.<br>
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The site only has 383 games with patch pages, I wonder how many patches
they have total, hard to see from the A-Z listings (although it's great
to see a news archive going back to 1995, wow!)<br>
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Anyone got any more of these sites, please post them :)<br>
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Andrew<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">There
is such an archive:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a href="http://www.patches-scrolls.de/" target="_blank">http://www.patches-scrolls.de/</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Stuart</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
<a href="mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org" target="_blank">game_preservation-bounces@igda.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org" target="_blank">mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Captain Commando<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> IGDA Game Preservation SIG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [game_preservation] Older versions of Programs</span></p>
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<p>I think OldVersion.com was listed on the
resource list
awhile back, but I'm going to pull it up again. This site archives old
versions
of computer software and utilities like Flash and Winamp. Similarly, I
think it
would be useful to have an archive of game patches. It's a bit
difficult to
locate patches for some of my older games, but it can also be useful
and
historically significant to run older patches of computer games.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.oldversion.com/" target="_blank">http://www.oldversion.com/</a>
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-Devin Monnens<br>
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-- <br>
The sleep of Reason produces monsters.<br>
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"Until next time..."<br>
Captain Commando</p>
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