The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙17h ago

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 ❧17h ago
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Show thread4am ❧17h ago
@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.
Show threadThe VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙17h 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

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@thevhswizard PM'd you!
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Show threadEduCoder12h ago
@a2_4am @thevhswizard you folks are f***ing magnificent!