Jason Scott

New article out! Super in-depth, very furious manifesto. I get batted around. Join in the fun! Looks like it was a lot of work.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

So, I went a little ham on this one, and I entered an auction, got into a bidding war, and now I'm on the hook for about $3,520.

https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/2192429/friars-club-friars-club-media-archive

I'm passing the hat around if people want to help throw a few bucks at me for archivebossing a bit too close to the sun.

Everything in this gets digitized.

paypal:jason@textifles.com venmo:@textfiles@digipres.club

I always try to appreciate the good things in life, and the 85,000 CD-ROMs that people have uploaded to Internet Archive are one of those good things.

https://archive.org/details/cd-roms?and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22collection%22

It's from this collection we get DISCMASTER.

https://discmaster.textfiles.com

For the first time in probably half a year, the emulated items "in queue" is now empty - everything's verified as functioning and living off in either final or holding collections for many different machines and so on.

Time for you all to upload more!

Streaming on twitch.tv most weekdays:

https://twitch.tv/textfiles

Why would you watch me archiving to dance music? I don't know, you're weird.

Entirely normal flash animations being automatically played by a script and then another script decides it works and puts it into a collection automatically so people know something, somewhere, checked them out.

Monday, and it's time to go through the new uploads of emulations with my quality-control scripts to make sure people uploaded working emulations. If you didn't know the Internet Archive emulates in the browser, now you do. 270,000 emulated titles and counting.

https://archive.org/search?query=emulator%3A*&sort=-downloads

Spammers run rampant against the archive, trying their best to post advertisements and tricky links outward to sketchy sites. They've been doing it for years, and there's mitigations I and others work to keep it contained and miminal. Recently, someone is trying to break out of containment and is posting literally thousands of items a day.

I'm being poked to perhaps post a bit more on Mastodon (and this is my primary non-work Mastodon). So I will take that advice to heart and get cracking.

Hey, coming in a bit late to the party, but if you get over to the ROMchip Journal stream at https://www.twitch.tv/romchipJournal​ they are a few thousand short of the "keep the lights on" level ($7k) and if they hit $10k, the editor of this journal gets hit in the face with a pie.

Uncowed, unbent, unchanged, unyielding. Happy Wednesday.

Finally getting those UMATIC tapes digitizing - and this lovely set of 1994 CGI demos is just the stuff.

https://archive.org/details/mp_Editel_Graphics_CGI_Demo_Reel_1994-09