Although at the moment there are other organisations you should be donating to, at some point you may like to donate to the following:<p><a href="https://gamehistory.org/donate/" rel="nofollow">https://gamehistory.org/donate/</a><p><a href="https://www.gamepres.org/en/qamission/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gamepres.org/en/qamission/</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/donate/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/donate/</a>
So cool to see computer archeology happening already.<p>Here is a quick glance of the game: <a href="https://youtu.be/63G9PrLLo_U" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/63G9PrLLo_U</a><p>I love the tron-esque music :)
It is really cool to see people go to such great lengths to recover lost software projects.<p>I wonder about what other interesting failed products from this time will later be found important enough to attempt to piece together and display to people in the future.<p>Perhaps an app that was prescient in its intent or the career of one of their makers seen as remarkable in some way that their digital detritus is dug up and placed under glass.
>> an unreleased NES game – an unpublished version of Days of Thunder done for Mindscape (a separate attempt done by Beam Software was ultimately published in its place<p>I wonder how many other games reached playable or nearly-complete states, and were just cast aside because of schedules, contract snafus, etc? Imagine what we missed out on.
I have worrying thoughts about how many prototypes get trashed and lost forever every year, yet have no idea how we could go about systematic recovery of lost games such as these. Can we buy up old game studio assets somehow?
Given IO errors and degradation of storage media, how long can one realistically preserve digital data?<p>Is it possible with multiple disks and an extant error correction algorithm to prevent data corruption indefinitely, assuming some maximum error rate?
The movie reference is buried in there, and it might not be obvious to some younger folks, so: <a href="https://youtu.be/AhUhuDW_jOw" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/AhUhuDW_jOw</a>