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50 more games preserved. Exhibiting at the Classic Gaming Expo UK in July, and an XML-based offline games database is now available. See site for more details: http://www.caps-project.org
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Comment 1Wayne Dresing, PhD.10-Apr-2004 21:08 GMT
Comment 2fiath10-Apr-2004 21:28 GMT
Comment 3Gob11-Apr-2004 03:38 GMT
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Comment 5Kid X11-Apr-2004 16:23 GMT
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Posted by fiath on 11-Apr-2004 19:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Kid X):
The amount of time is takes to run CAPS, you think we have time to actually play the games? We wish! ;)

But you do raise a good point. Legalities dictate we can only give games to the games authors (which we have done and continue to do), and to people we know own the original - that is basically the people who contribute the games in the first place.

You can find games around, and those are those are the ones which contributors have chosen share. The point is that people should actually have the choice about playing the original item when the copyright expires, the disks certainly won't be around at that time. We cannot give people games they do not own - we have no right to do so. Otherwise people really would have a reason to shut us down - and rightly so.

We are working with the games industry and academia on the social and legal aspects of making these games available, and hopefully with these efforts and time, people will realise how important software preservation is. Not just to play the games that game us all so much enjoyment in our past, but to provide future historians access to such an important part of our digital heritage that would otherwise be lost to everybody.

There is a simple choice, (1) let them rot, or, (2) do our very best to ensure that these pieces of digital art stay with us, and teach people how this revolutionary part of history started.

We chose option number (2). Do our very best.
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Comment 7Jerry GibbonsRegistered user12-Apr-2004 09:34 GMT
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