wow ambcious.
Ok, what exactly do you want, I have a lot of games, some of them are
full versions like grail to the thief so obviously I can't archive those.
I have a lot of old dos games, therre is jims games which are mirrored now.
There are others, sadly I think us guys at realitysoftware have
abandoned a lot of our old code but I may have some of it, well sadly
not the really old stuff.
I have quite a few old z codes, and a lot of agt and tads games and
their compilers, if you are on the dosbox list you probably saw me
upload that entire archive and its been up here a few times.
How would the request system work, I can't store every game, so we would
need some sort of server or servers.
who would fund the prroject or would people contribute to it.
I could probably give about 2-10 bucks every so often but with sertain
family funding going away later this year I can't just chuck cash at the
project.
I have seen other projects on bt syncs, dropboxes, and ftp sites
publicly accessable get full of viruses, worms and trogens to deleted
files and the like to people hacking computers with stuff inside files
though.
I guess I'd be happy to submit to it but I don't have much of a net
connection data wize the 30gb cap is often overloaded with online
streams and I don't want to overload it myself with extranious data.
On 11/08/2015 8:59 a.m., john wrote:
Hi list,
Recently I've been thinking about all the messages and posts I've seen where somebody's asking a
question like "where can I find game x", or "game y is gone, does anybody have a
copy".
As a result, I'm wondering how the community would feel about a "game archive
project". Basically, my idea is that those of us who have large collections of games
would work to create a central repository, and then send out installers on request.
My current vision for this project is something like the following:
*The archive will keep a copy of any and all games that can be found, as well
as versions of the same game that offer a noticeable difference in gameplay,
sounds, storyline, etc. Example: swamp version 3.6 would be kept, 3.5 would
not, 1.1 would (because it has a single player mission different gameplay and
different sounds).
*Only legal games will be distributed. Example: the setup for bsc games, but
not the key generator. Requesting an illegal product could result in a
blacklist of the person (or email if name cannot be determined).
*Requests will be handled on a case-by-case basis; I'm considering either using
dropbox file requests or just plane old email. The reason for this is mostly
related to web site management - I could probably build a page for each author,
but keeping it updated would be a pain, and it'd require huge amounts of
storage space (my personal archive of installers is 8gb, and its really not
that comprehensive).
I've got a few reasons for wanting to work on this.
Firstly, is the fact that there's no real central location for games. A lot of
people have installers, and pretty much any game can be found if you do enough
digging on audiogames.net, but not all of them are still hosted, which makes
finding games (like rail racer) a pain.
Secondly, is that I'd personally love to see a really solid location where we
can browse and access old abandonware titles or just older versions of games
that aren't on the dev's web site anymore.
How do you all feel about this (developers, I'd love to hear from you
especially), and if I were to try to make this a reality, who'd be willing to
dedicate some time to help me put together the archive?
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