Library of Congress Considers Archiving Games

GamePolitics reports on talks at the U.S. Library of Congress concerning archiving our digital cultural heritage, including games. From the article: "The initiative is called 'Preserving Creative America,' and plans to compile (with industry help) a list of the commercial digital content most at risk of loss or degradation. The initiative will also develop ideas for preservation, business models to help maintain archives, and promote discussions between the archives and commercial content producers so that the archives are kept up to date. CM: Hopefully the Library of Congress will consider that many PC games were rushed to market before they were ready. Critical software patches should be included in the archive. That's right Sierra, I'm talking about you."

Comments

Re:copy protection

[Xabora]

IIRC, Libraries are allowed to use cracks if they dont have the original media for archival reasons.

Re:It's a little late...

[pablomarx]

http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ftp.apple.asimov. net/images/games/action/floppy.dsk.gz

Virtual Apple has it.

[antdude]

Play it online if you have IE6.0. ;) It works. I never seen or played this game.