Hackaday (unofficial) August 10, 2024 12:00pm Video Game Preservation – Stop Killing Games! #games #news #consumerprotection #digitalpreservation #petition #preservation #softwarepreservation #videogames #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Video Game Preservation – Stop Killing Games! It’s been an ongoing issue for years now. People who buy video games, especially physical copies, expect to be able to play that game at their leisure, no matter how old their console gets. T…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 4, 2022 5:00pm Adafruit Hack Chat Helps You Copy That Floppy #hackadaycolumns #adafruit #datarecovery #digitalpreservation #floppy #hackchat #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Adafruit Hack Chat Helps You Copy That Floppy You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course, you’d be right. But when has that ever stopped hackers before? Just because these disks are no longer…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 18, 2021 6:00am Automatic Microfiche Scanner Digitizes Docs #3dprinterhacks #digitalcamerashacks #retrocomputing #digitalpreservation #digitizing #documentation #microfiche #microfilm #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Automatic Microfiche Scanner Digitizes Docs While the concept might seem quaint to us today, microfiche was once a very compelling way to store and distribute documents. By optically shrinking them down to just a few percent of their origina…