What if my costume is a copy of Ultima IV that's become unreadable due to bit rot? That would be pretty scary :)<div><br></div><div>Actually, I was curious if the SIG blog/wiki has an RSS feed. We can integrate that into the Facebook.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p>We've had DiGRA during September, if anyone has any future or past
events they want to have put in the newsletter make sure to email in :)
</p>
<h3><span></span><span>
Preservation SIG September 2009 Work </span></h3>
<p>The SIG presented the edited 2009 white paper on preservation at <a href="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/SIG_Resources/DiGRA_2009" title="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/SIG_Resources/DiGRA_2009" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DiGRA 2009</a>,
along with other members presenting on diverse topics on the subject of
preservation - very interesting panel, and thank you to Dan Pinchbeck,
Andreas Lange, Jo Barwick, James Newman and Tom Wooley.
</p>
<p>DiGRA was also helpful with some historical papers. The main one I
got permission to upload was related to the history of <a href="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Digital_Game_Canon/Tetris" title="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Digital_Game_Canon/Tetris" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tetris</a>, and might be of interest. Thanks to Will
Jordan for permission to upload this.
</p>
<p>If you are interested in helping the SIG work you can handily
volunteer for some <a href="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG" title="http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">projects</a>,
or create your own if something is missing!
</p>
<h3><span></span><span> Future
Work for October 2009 </span></h3>
<p>If anyone has any suggestions for work please bring them up on the
mailing list. I am personally too busy, and at this very moment too
ill, to do much more then discuss things.
</p>
<h3><span></span><span> Mailing
List Discussions </span></h3>
<p>If you've not joined our <a href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation" title="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mailing list</a>,
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
changes over - although those wanting email can still get it.
</p>
<p><a href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/thread.html" title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/thread.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">September</a> had <a href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001381.html" title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001381.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Henry Lowood bring up the manifest for preserving Doom</a>,
which we discussed a lot. There was also a brief discussion on <a href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001376.html" title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001376.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the definition and thinginess of games from DiGRA
keynote</a>, <a href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001401.html" title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001401.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">arty games</a>, and a longer discussion on <a href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001405.html" title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001405.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">how best to get ISO data onto a usable external
harddrive</a> for hobbyist preservation (if anyone wants to help write
guides or provide them, feel free!). Finally <a href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001429.html" title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001429.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">serious games</a> might get a canon-like list sorted
for themselves, and <a href="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001427.html" title="http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/2009-September/001427.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">some cool retro "machinima"</a> was posted.
</p>
<h3><span></span><span>
Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links </span></h3>
<p><i>Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to
preservation_news @ <a href="http://igda.org" target="_blank">igda.org</a> !</i>
</p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/09/digra_2009_pane.html" title="http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/09/digra_2009_pane.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DiGRA 2009 Panel</a> - <i>Yes, I realise this is a
duplicate. :/ No one sent anything in and I've not seen anything else!</i>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><span></span><span> Final
Thoughts </span></h3>
<p>I hope you'll get a good Halloween costume made up for the end of
October ;) (what? you don't do Halloween? man, well, play some scary
videogames instead then!). There is Game City at the end of the month
in the UK, and if they host any more history-based things I'll post up
anything I find interesting on the mailing list.
</p>
<p>Andrew Armstrong
</p>
<p>IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor
</p>
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