I’ve been going through some of my late father’s possessions and found a stash of VIC-20 cassettes. Some are more well known games, while others are more niche, possibly made by local programmers. Like Pet Frog. I can’t find that one anywhere! Those I’ll definitely extract and upload to archive.org.
What I’m not sure about is some of the utility software. For example, I have cassettes for programmable character set and game graphics editor, loan/mortgage calculator, home inventory, personal finance, VIC typewriter (word processor), space math, biorhythm compatibility, etc.
Are these worth extracting and uploading?
kazriko@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
I’d say if you can’t find it on archive.org, even if it’s niche or obsolete, someone might find it interesting in the future.
who@feddit.org 3 days ago
Seconded. Old stuff that seems worthless sometimes turns out to be sorely missed years later when it can no longer be recovered.
Sergio@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thirded. In fact, in “a corpus of VIC-20 software”, just knowing that the programs were there, were used, their size, how they were implemented, etc might be useful. For sure extract the most interesting-looking stuff first, but if you have time, do as much as you can.