<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Closer to home: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/">http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/</a> Games are only a part of this project, which is an effort of Stanford, U. Maryland, U. Illinois, and RIT. The guys behind the Portsmouth and KEEP projects have been at this a long time. There will be payoffs for software preservation generally from all of these efforts, not just for games and virtual worlds.  Also, the games/virtual worlds efforts are focusing on player (user) behavior in ways that should offer some new ideas for software preservation, as well. I'm directing one of the Preserving Virtual Worlds teams, in case anyone has questions. Henry Al Kossow wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:C5B998E3.69E8%25kossow@computerhistory.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> On 2/12/09 9:09 AM, "Randall Neff" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:randall.neff@gmail.com"><randall.neff@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">From Techradar.com linked to from Slashdot.org </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/uk-uni-developing-massive-games-emulator">http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/uk-uni-developing-massive-games-emulator</a>- 528487 UK university develops massive games emulator Videogames are not pulp cultural artefacts and should be preserved UK researchers at Portsmouth University developing massive, universal games and data emulator to preserve our digital heritage </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This is part of a 3.5 million euro 3 year effort called KEEP. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=02:00:00&i">http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/index.php?lg=en&main=News&site=02:00:00&i</a> d=186 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUE">http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=1&CAT=PROJ&QUE</a> RY=011f37a73b31:61ba:091d22f8&RCN=89496 -- Now, if someone would come up with $5m for preservation of something OTHER than games... _______________________________________________ SCC_active mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SCC_active@computerhistory.org">SCC_active@computerhistory.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.computerhistory.org/mailman/listinfo/scc_active">http://mail.computerhistory.org/mailman/listinfo/scc_active</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Henry Lowood Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections; Film & Media Collections HRG, Green Library 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford University Libraries Stanford CA 94305-6004 USA <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood">http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lowood@stanford.edu">lowood@stanford.edu</a>; 650-723-4602 </pre> </body> </html>