I have to admit, searching the Web for things from the 2000s and before ain't an easy undertaking, with many 404 errors, low-quality sources, irrelevant SEO-fueled results, and the need to filter them with operators, and there is no real (preferably free) alternative to break our addiction to Google. Every month, I donate points from my Bing account to the Internet Archive. At least there, the past refuses to die.

#InternetArchive #dataPreservation #Bing #degoogle #Google #FOSS #searchEngines

[Update 2: this was a very broken file. It has been dumped again]

[Solved, thanks to @futzle and an old... Dreamcast tool?!]

https://github.com/bootsector/dctools

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#AskFedi anyone seen files like this?
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I was handed what should be an ISO file.

00ff ffff ffff ffff ffff ff00 0002 0001 is tickling my brain like the start bytes are doubled?

I can't find CD001 in here so maybe it's not ISO9660 at all?

#DataPreservation #Archival

Early this morning, I had minor success in making one of my Internet Archive uploads more complete. My dump of InsaneHeat.com, a former fan site for the Invictus racing game Insane, has 11 more vehicle files for a total of 462, with some 137 to go. It also now has Utilities and imap folders, along with more skins and maps. This goes on to show that I don't just dump stuff on the Archive; I make them whole when possible.

https://archive.org/details/insaneheat-website

#1nsane #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive

Does anyone else remember Tux Racer, the old #Linux racing game from way back? Does anyone else also remember tuxracer.fubaby.com, where people would share their courses? Any way to download all the courses again? Sorry, but I want to upload all of them on the Internet Archive. I could only retrieve some of them from the Wayback Machine.

Latest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011021336/http://tuxracer.fubaby.com/

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #LinuxGaming #TuxRacer

Guys, get out your Internet Archive accounts. A video game repository called Myrient is closing down tomorrow, and a staggering 390+ terabytes of data will disappear with it. I am currently saving webpages at /Eggman's Arcade Repository/!EXTRAS/. Unfortunately, nearly all the saves are 404 errors, even though the files can still be downloaded directly from the site, so we may need to upload them.

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #Myrient

We have just had another Internet casualty. Replacementdocs.com was a website that hosted scans of video game manuals for anyone to download. It was most active in the 2000s. I just checked to see the state of the website after months of broken downloads, and—yep—it's gone forever.

Don't fret, you can find every video game manual that was on the website at the point of closure here: https://archive.org/details/p31-replacementdocs.

#dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #PDF #scans

Ich werde zur #EH23 meinen mini-PC zum Retten und Archivieren von Optischen Medien (mit LibreDrive) mitbringen. Habs soeben auch auf die Dating Seite geschrieben. Also falls jemand Interesse hat, einfach mit Medien vorbei kommen :)

Wäre jedoch gut, wenn jemand noch einen guten Flachbettscanner mitbringen könnte um die Bilder auf den Disks, sowie die Microcodes auf der Unterseite, etc. mit Digitalisieren zu können.

#EasterHegg2026 #Archiving #DataPreservation #DataRecovery