Comments on: My Approaching Delightful CD Crisis

By: Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:11:14 +0000

Wow, I totally am still finding more and more game preservation stuff. I’m so new to this – neat to see game shareware there!

Anyway, great blog, and this project of yours sounds really good – for Shareware CD’s, I presume these are just things like magazine front page CD’s? And you’re looking for donations, of any specific time period? (I myself am not that old, but my Dad on the otherhand…).

I was also reading about this site (which I for some reason never found before) on wikipedia, shame about people having legal issues with the content. I don’t know anyone else recording this kind of history.

Okay, long comment over Hope you have enough space for all the content! and I will help contribute if I can.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:02:40 +0000

The issue with using the ISOs live for FUSE is twofold. First of all, it’s somewhat resource intensive, and second of all, it assumes the arrangement is exactly the same between the two entities. And it’s not.

But I appreciate someone wanting my life to be better/easier. The ISOs will be compressed, saving hundreds of megabytes along the way.

By: Dezro

Dezro — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:58:27 +0000

Mac discs? That is pretty awesome of you! Thank you very much, there.

Oh, the anticipation is killing me! I wonder if there are many HyperCard stacks?

By: Fred Blasdel

Fred Blasdel — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:07:02 +0000

There’s no point in storing the same exact data twice! If you really want the ‘pristine’ ISOs of the CDs, use a shell script to mount all of them as filesystems! With FUSE + AVFS you can even mount ZIPs and RARs and whatnot.