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Re: Jordan mechner's blog post on finding and posting the Prince of Persia source

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I've found it interesting that I can still access data from a 30 year 
old 5.25" floppy, but when I try to read a 10 year old CDR it doesn't work.

- Trevor

On 4/18/2012 1:45 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Prince of Persia Source Code -- Posted!
> http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/04/source/
>
>    "Let me begin to count the ways I've been lucky with this: The box
>    was found. The disks were intact. Prince of Persia and I happened to
>    have a high enough public profile that people of Jason and Tony's
>    caliber (and dozens of others who contributed their expertise via IRC,
>    skype and twitter from around the world) cared.
>
>    "In the bigger picture, our timing was lucky. The 1980s and the
>    Apple II are long enough ago to be of historical interest, yet recent
>    enough that the people who put the data on the disks are still with
>    us, and young enough to kind of remember how we did it. Roland
>    Gustafsson, author of the special 18-sector RWTS routines that had
>    made our disks super-efficient in 1988 (and unreadable to anyone but
>    us), was able to get on IRC in 2012 and explain what he'd done to
>    Discferret kids who weren't born then.
>
>    "For all these lucky reasons, our archaeological expedition was
>    crowned with success.
>
>    "From a preservationist point of view, the POP source code slipped
>    through a window that is rapidly closing. Anyone who turns up a 1980s
>    disk archive 20 or 30 years from now may be out of luck. Even if
>    it's something valuable that the world really cares about and is
>    willing to invest time and money into extracting, it will probably be
>    too late."
>
>
> *Stares at my own collection of 5.25" floppies*
>
> Also, thanks to folks like Kevin Savetz (AtariArchives.org&
> Classic Computer Magazine Archive) and Peter Brantley,
> et al (Internet Archive) who have been trying to archive great
> stuff all along! :)
>
>

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Jordan mechner's blog post on finding and posting the Prince of Persia source bill@newbreedsoftware.com (Bill Kendrick) - 2012-04-18 19:45 +0000
  Re: Jordan mechner's blog post on finding and posting the Prince of Persia source Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-05-01 13:59 -0600

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