I started writing tweets about that state of the field of digital history article. I've drafted 5 so far. Lol. Not sure I'm strong enough to take that on today. Maybe after breakfast enough neurons will be firing that I'll be able to do it w/o humiliating myself or anyone else.
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1/ As a MAME developer and thus someone ostensibly in that field as a hobby, I can honestly say: Not good. There are far too many disparate groups, all operating for their own ends. It's a rare moment indeed when those groups actually cooperate.
2/ Just off the top of my head, there's the Video Game History Foundation, Gaming Alexandria, Game Preservation Society, and probably loads more that escape me at the moment.
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3/ Then you have the Strong Museum of Play, where Scott "Safestuff" Evans donated a bunch of Atari prototypes that will never, ever see the light of day, and once they bit-rot into dust, they will never, ever be experienced by anyone again. Because MAME is evil, or something.
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4/ Oh, and I forgot about the Software Preservation Society. And Redump. And TOSEC. Preserving digital history suffers from the same problem the open-source community does: Everyone thinks they can do better, and only rarely do people actually collaborate.
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