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Internet Archive Adds 1,100 Arcade Games to Online Museum
Continually Expanding Online Arcade Museum The Internet Archive recently further expanded their massive arcade game collection. Now adding 1,100 more arcade games to their repository as the online museum approaches its 4th year collecting games. The collection of working arcade machines run in modern browsers and is done in collaboration…
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The Internet Archive Offers 60 Handheld LCD Games for Free
Going on a nostalgia trip has never been easier. Back before modern handheld consoles came out, games were very different. Consoles basically relied on LCD screens that flared up parts of an image in order to simulate movement. If you remember playing those games in your younger years, you’ll definitely want…
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Internet Archive Plans Canadian Based Backup Due To Trump Concerns
After the election of Donald Trump, there has been widespread backlash among certain communities. One of those has been the tech industry which fears the changes Trump have spoken of bringing in. The latest announcement comes courtesy of the Internet Archive, one of the biggest repositories of digital knowledge. In response to…
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Play Thousands of Amiga Games In-Browser
Internet Archive has released an archive of over 10,000 Commodore Amiga games, from 1980s Amiga 500 games to Amiga 1200 titles from circa 1995. The Amiga was one of the most popular home computers during the late-Eighties and early-Nineties, known for its impressive collection of games, art packages, and video…
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Archive.org Releases 30GB Torrent of Lost 80s Cassette Tapes
The wonderful Internet Archive (Archive.org) has released a 30GB torrent of lost music which dates from the Eighties to the Early-Nineties. The songs are sourced from a massive archive of cassette tapes – the format by which music was shared before the advent of home writeable CDs – courtesy of…
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Internet Archive’s MS-DOS Game Library Now Playable Through Twitter
Much excitement followed Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library, making over 2,300 MS-DOS games available to play for free at the turn of the year, offering such classics as Wolfenstein 3D, Prince of Persia, Oregon Trail, and Maniac Mansion to gamers young and old. The games were playable in-browser by…
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Publishers Want to Make Old Game Archiving Illegal
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) wants archiving of abandoned video games, such as Internet Archive’s ever-growing library, illegal, calling the practice “hacking”, which is “associated with piracy”. The ESA’s statement follows a move by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to have abandoned games exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s…
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Internet Archive Adds Over 2,300 Free-to-Play MS-DOS Games
Non-profit digital library Internet Archive has continued its effort to conserve and share classic video games by updating its game library with a whopping 2,334 MS-DOS games, available now, free-to-play, though a standard web browser. Internet Archive curator Jason Scott, responsible for the massive haul of new games to IA,…
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Millions of Historic Images Added to Flicker by Internet Archive
Earlier this year the Internet Archive began culling over 14 million images from their public domain ebooks, then began uploading them to the Internet Archive’s Flickr account. This means that all of the historic images are now easily searchable and downloadable, something that wasn’t really possible before without downloading each…
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Internet Archive To Start Preserving Classic Console Games
All oldies but goldies games have been made possible to play on modern computers with the help of emulators, and they are part of gaming history too. The Internet Archive, a non-profit organization with the purpose of building a freely accessible internet library, is now taking it a step further…
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Part Of The Internet Archive Burns Down
The internet archive, an impressively huge data center that holds every webpage created and indexed on archive servers and runs completely non-profit, partially caught fire on November 6th. The archive center has a total of 30 builds, of which one was lost in the fire among other surrounding buildings that…
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