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Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive

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Are you a pull the plastic wrap off american or a keep it on american

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@http_error_418 Normally I giggle at you "I HAVE to mention the trigger discipline" folks, but in this case, the movie CIVIL WAR (2024), I think that untrained recklessness and the menace of the scene with this character is intentional.

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Me when people tell me it's "impossible to find anything on the archive"

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@finagle That's when there's no archive to find things!

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Boy, don't sleep on this absolutely charming Tandy/Radio Shack MC-10 programs James Gerrie is uploading in emulation-in-browser ready shape. So cuuuute. So quaint. Such honest homebrew computing.

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_mc10?sort=-publicdate

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OK, the big experiment has begun. A ham radio group has funded the scanning of 4,000 manuals from the Great Manuals Plus Haul. Now, the experiment is - will people kick on a special link in the blog entry to help fund the other 20 PALLETS of manuals?

https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/24/a-happy-ending-for-some-manual-labor-and-a-call-for-support/

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People always say to me "When will you scan ______?" and the answer is it costs money. This is a chance to see if people will throw money at a specific project to help fund the costs.

The nice part is that you can already visit the 4,000 scanned manuals already!

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@VE2UWY they are definitely going to cover scanning more manuals, but they can really only scan radio related manuals and these manuals are a whole range of testing and electronic equipment. So more people from more sources are needed.

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@lewiscowles1986 I intend to keep people updated and how the fundraising is going. Nothing is going to be thrown out.

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@piggo it does.

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The all-hands monday meeting at Internet Archive featured Wylie Gustafson, who you may have heard as the Yahoo! yodel.

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Today's mild side-quest while I'm cleaning my apartment is working with my discovery people were uploading not just a few flash items, but thousands of flash items on the archive and clearly not able to figure out how to make them emulate in browser. I'm fixing that now, so apparently we're going to get as many as 3,000 flash animations/games running at the site this weekened.

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First part done: We now have a "Flash Compilations" collection where someone uploads piles of .SWF files into an item (we can't do much with multiple SWF files at once) and so they're great for finding SWF materials to use:

https://archive.org/details/flash_collections

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Best review:

https://archive.org/details/sonic_hard_mode_by_sonichackercrawford233_on_twitch_sonichacker_SHC2014

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This meme is making the rounds. Naturally people are going "this isn't real". Well, I can't attest how much Musk was inspired by the original, but Internet Archive lets you play the PC and Apple versions in browser:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_shareware_fb_CARBUILD (PC Version)
https://archive.org/details/CarBuilder4amCrack (Apple II Version)

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Saturday Matinee: "The Book Makers", a documentary about people nutty about books and the meaning of them, including my boss @brewsterkahle - check it out for free on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj3VNHQfZsM

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DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it's time to HACK THE PLANET
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/04/18.html

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@ohmu @jwz believe it, baby

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@ohmu Jamie has been a par excellence caretaker of the place. He also has a detailed history:

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/1906-1998.html

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@ohmu I think the issue is that there appears to be little/no citation of it, so there's nothing to point to but rumor.

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@ohmu mail him?

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I've just had a lot of fun rewatching this conference given by @textfiles in Lausanne (DH Days) two years ago about his work at the Internet Archive, emulation, and software preservation. It's so rich, full of great examples! Next year I'll include it in my syllabus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5_dLevOhrA @gamelabunilepfl

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@yrochat @gamelabunilepfl With bonus AI discussion at end (Blorb)

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The calls have been minimal, but "Jason, where is the emulation-in-browser support for the Tiger GAME.COM handheld console" has been answered - every released game for it, and every instruction manual, as well as links to Diskman's absolutely fantastic fan site. Play the worst thing ever today:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_gamecom

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@sterophonick

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@sterophonick @rotopenguin For what it's worth, the MAME source code is very explicit that sound is still a major issue, and worth further attention.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/tiger/gamecom.cpp

When it gets fixed, the emulator we run will reflect it.

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@seeyouinrayman4

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@lunarloony I'm mean and petty, not cruel

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Oh.... one last thing. IT WORKS ON MOBILE.

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