On Nov 19, 2004, at 10:58 pm, Edwin Blink wrote:
Many things where created for SAM and are hold back because of the 'respect' and while time passes things get lost or will get bad as floppies won't live forever. Then things that where created with enthiousasm and took many hours of work will simply disappear. Sharing them not only brings more fun in SAMs little world and gives credit to authors for their otherwise unknown work. But it also a method of preserving them for the years to come.
I'm not sure that sharing things is the right thing to do at this point. At the very least we should try to make sure Duncan Mackenzie is on-board (although, since he hasn't replied to my email about Syncytium, I rather doubt he'll respond favourably to requests from people who have no legal interest in the copyrights to release such games).
However, I do take your point that floppy disks have a limited lifespan, so we should try to make sure that everything is imaged and catalogued. Perhaps we could maintain a list of what images exist - not necessarily to release the images right now, but to make sure that everything will still be available, as and when we can agree on what is the right thing to do with it.
Andrew
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