I have this little website, It was made when I was 15 years old I think. I used dextrose.com as source of my files, many forum posts and random web pages. The web was very different from now and sometimes I think to remake the website, rewrite those pages in English and revamp the download section. Recently archive.org had with some nice initiatives that I though were impossible for silly copyright issues, for example we are forbidden to play NES roms on emulator for games that we don't actually have in our possession. Like myself, I think that you have a lot of historical documents regarding various hardware architectures that are actually dead. I don't count the thousands of files for game fix, rom hacking, software for copiers and txts that are floating around our private archives. I was thinking to if it was possible to upload and organize that amount of material to the archive.org because this is a digital legacy, piece of software and hardware engineering can be lost forever. I am not the only one to think of some kind of digital archive, there are various initiatives for archiving material, but none of them like archive.org at a what are your thoughts?
Are you asking to assembler to upload all his findings to archive.org? even though it would be nice(I guess?) to have a centralized place for all information regarding games but wouldn't doing that make this site obsolete.
Nobody of course, but if you want to make a public archive you should start to consider the legal aspects. This is why I find the initiative at archive.org so great. I am not asking to anyone to upload their findings, I am wondering about a digital archive for technical documents. For example, I would to upload to an archive my findings about MIPS CPU and diagrams, for their historical importance and preservation.
