The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙2d ago

EDIT:
Thank you all for your help and suggestions, we've got a massive box of these that are getting shipped off to be archived properly.

Through this thread I found out about @a2_4am who does exactly what I was hoping for. If you want to see what good game archiving looks like, check out their profile, or a sample of one of the posts they make here:

https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116324459433261190

Original Post:
I don't really know much about this particular sphere of the world, but if there's anybody who has a hyperfixation with educational software from the 1980s, it would be here on Mastodon.

Friend of mine is clearing out her parent's house and has found several old 5¼" floppy educational games for the Apple II. They've still got their original boxes, but have definitely been "loved".

I am always paranoid about lost media and software preservation... are these something anybody would... want? Is it worth trying to find people who are into this?

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #AppleII #SoftwearPreservation

Show thread4am ❧2d ago
@thevhswizard hiiiiiiiiii
Show thread4am ❧
@thevhswizard in case it wasn't clear, I'm the one with the hyperfixation on 1980s educational software for the Apple II. I've preserved thousands of them in the past decade+. The answer is that there is absolutely no way to tell if those exact versions have been preserved without digitizing them, deprotecting them, and comparing the deprotected disk images against previously preserved versions. Which I am offering to do.
Apr 6 at 7:59pmPhanpy
Show threadThe VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙2d ago

@a2_4am Perfect, exactly what I was hoping to find. I was doing a little looking through your post history and you do indeed appear to be the perfect candidate.

And that's also why I love Mastodon, I just knew SOMEBODY on here had to be into this sort of thing.

They're still gathering them all up, but if you send me an address they're willing to ship them all out to you once they're done gathering everything up

Show thread4am ❧2d ago
@thevhswizard PM'd you!
Show threadEduCoder2d ago
@a2_4am @thevhswizard you folks are f***ing magnificent!
Show threadgloriouscow2d ago
@thevhswizard @a2_4am hit me up if you find any gibson light pens
Show threadeuroplus 1d ago
@a2_4am @thevhswizard just chiming in with a hearty “4am’s the hyperfixated preserver you want and need”.
Show threadirrational method14h ago

@a2_4am

On a related request, can I send you a copy of my father-in-law's self-published educational software for the Apple II? I believe he sold it through ads in educational journals but I don't know if he had much success.

I've since inherited his Apple IIc, a small pile of disks and some papers that go with it. I wasn't planning to figure out how to preserve it, but thought I'd offer them to someone who might be interested in it.

Show thread4am ❧14h ago
@IrrationalMethod sure, PM me