Mastodawn

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

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4am ❧2d ago

@thevhswizard hiiiiiiiiii

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4am ❧2d 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.

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europlus

@a2_4am @thevhswizard just chiming in with a hearty “4am’s the hyperfixated preserver you want and need”.