Re: [SWCollect] Here we go.....

[Dan Chisarick]

Collect games so I can play them: Guilty (though as of late its 
"collect games so I can rip my hair out imaging them so that SOME DAY I 
can play them").

Also, thanks for all the tape-archiving advice.  I have 1 or 2 tapes 
and was meaning to get around to them sometime real soon now.  I have a 
96Khz USB audio capture box (made by Edirol) that I had planned to use. 
 Was originally going to use a "Griffin iMic" but when I heard 
occasional spikes in the sound I almost ripped it out and tossed it on 
the spot.  I sometimes won't get to verifying an image for over a year, 
and it would really SUCK to image a tape only to find out it was 
corrupted.  (The most recent surprise was that Sir-Tech's Operation: 
Copernicus... damn thing verified the disk volume number.  Had to dig 
the disk up again to find out what it was.  Bastards.)

Oh yeah, nice to come home to 89 (and counting) posts in one day.  
Yikes.

On Mar 15, 2004, at 2:31 PM, Howard Feldman wrote:

Ok Ok, don't want to upset my fellow collectors, though I still fail 
to see your logic.  You can't make a fake anything from the 4K 
computer file and I highly doubt it will devalue the game as a 
collectible to anyone.  Are you going to suddenly not want it anymore 
once you have the emulator image?  How many of us really collect the 
games so we can play them??  I guess some of you must but certainly 
not I..

I will still provide to people upon request however (send me e-mails 
directly, not to the list that is).

Josh Lulewicz wrote:
I totally agree.
Howard I don't think distributing this image of your is a good idea 
and
I encourage to think twice and not do it.
-josh
-----Original Message-----
From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 
15, 2004 12:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Here we go.....
I'd just like to (as always) voice my concern about how widely these
images
would get distributed.  Not that I'm against preserving it, I'm just
worried
about it falling into the wrong hands and we get inundated with fakes
being
sold as originals.
Before actually sending the game to the high bidder, do you think you
could
completely "preserve" it? There are so few copies that any image of
the
original tape is *very* important. Nobody knows where this tape will
go
and
if it can be properly preserved after you sell it. Also, the game 
will
have
another trip to the high bidder, which can even more damage the
game...
What you would need to do is to scan *all* documentation, box, tape
(both
sides), etc. at 600 dpi.
The most important is to record both sides of the tape at a very high
rate
(44100 Hz, 16 bit), with proper sound level adjustment. Do you have
the
hardware to do this?
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