European petition to preserve video games, please sign 👾

  • @[email protected]
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    254 months ago

    I’ve long maintained the US needs to start a National Video Games Archive akin to the film and sound archives. Committee selection and all.

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        4 months ago

        Getting the government involved does not in any way impact the ability of individuals to do it. The national Film and Sound archives are national treasures that provide a critical function when it comes to preserving media that hobbyists can’t duplicate. Their value for the arts/humanities and the preservation of culture simply can’t be overstated. For starters, a national video game archive would presumably store source code/as many generations of builds as possible, a lot of which do not exist on the world. They’d also follow proper backup protocols for these assets.

        There is no downside.

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    How do you leave it in a “functionable state”? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, os’ update or die off, etc. You’d have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer I’d want nothing to do with that market then.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      4 months ago

      I can still run Blade Runner which came out in 1997 using Wine, things don’t die off that easily when they are not broken on purpose.

    • @leftzero
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      34 months ago

      You’d have to expose the source code to the public

      Good.

      I’d want nothing to do with that market then

      With that attitude, also good.