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Eurogamer article on disk preservation
Posted on 10-Dec-2017 10:11:25
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| Interesting article about games and demo disks and the challenge of archiving legally. Also touches on hardware preservation. Article link. _________________
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Re: Eurogamer article on disk preservation
Posted on 10-Dec-2017 12:11:46
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Just finished reading it. Has got me more than a little worried about the state of my disks up in my loft  I dont currently have a working system to check them with either. _________________
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Re: Eurogamer article on disk preservation
Posted on 10-Dec-2017 19:43:03
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I suppose we have to accept no matter where stuff is stored - nothing lasts forever. _________________
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Re: Eurogamer article on disk preservation
Posted on 11-Dec-2017 0:09:07
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I stored my disk as ADF a long time ago, sadly many of disks where bad, and not recoverable.
not all disks can be backed up that way, some disk if they are original might have copy protection or some preventing backing up like that.
Lucky for me many of disk that where bad was Disk mag disks and stuff that can be download from internet anyway. Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 11-Dec-2017 at 12:10 AM.
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Re: Eurogamer article on disk preservation
Posted on 11-Dec-2017 12:57:03
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Interesting read. The section on preserving digital games was amusing; I mean they are already in digital, just get the downloaded game file and back it up, or that's how it should be. I don't have many full games but ones I have do have corruption. I've already started backing up and going through my personal disk collection. Games can be sourced elsewhere, even if not a perfect duplicate, but my personal data over the years cannot and only has one original master copy. |
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