2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time

My favourite example of digital archaeology from recent years is [link] - saving the Prince of Persia floppies. ▶ this video

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Was going to say the same thing. It's a very nice trip down memory lane. Also, Jason Scott's talk on how he recovered the original source code from a bunch of dusty disks ▶ this video

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Your second link reminded me of [link] (which definitely builds on some of Matt's work). [link] - C++17 for the Commodore 64. Probable language warnings for my other suggestions: * Rescuing Prince of Persia from the Sands of Time ▶ this video (was this talk ever given elsewhere?) * And You Shall Know Me By My Trail of Documentation - [link] * The History and Evolution of Computer Viruses - [link]

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I missed that distinction when I posted the link. I'm sure they had difficulty rescuing Price of Persia. If you have some time to spare, watch ▶ this video (or read [link] and the many other sources)

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If you've not seen any of Jason Scott's other work, I personally recommend his talks on the Prince of Persia[0], Mario 64[1], and crackers fighting crackers via crack screens[2]. [3] This one is just funny. [0] ▶ this video [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link]

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I haven't looked recently but I did search a while ago for a 5.25" USB floppy drive but never found any. Several 3.5" though. Also, I haven't done any specific climate control for the books or the disks. The notebooks are still readable and I can even tell the difference in the parts I wrote with a ball pen and a fountain pen. Many of the disks are damaged with fungal growth on the magnetic medium and I doubt I'd be able to read them even with a drive. It's quite challenging to read off an old disk. Jason Scott (the famous digital archivist) had a nice talk on recovering the original source code for Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia from ancient disks that mentions some of the challenges. ▶ this video

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