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Preservation articles
Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape
Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M magnetic tape dates back to 1973 and contains roughly 40 megabytes of data – the earliest surviving Unix release in which both the kernel and core utilities were written in C.
Two-year preservation project recovers 144 lost ROMs from the Sega Channel streaming service
Sega was also working on a Genesis web browser
GOG opens up about the uphill battle of fighting DRM and preserving classic PC games
Maciej Gołębiewski tells weird stories about the popular PC game store
Hundreds of Warner Bros. DVDs from the 2000s are rotting away
Virtually all copies of around 200 titles are likely damaged, some aren't available anywhere else
Video Game History Foundation releases trove of game dev documents, magazines, and more
Searchable archived documents and never-before-seen development materials available for free
Animal tracking made affordable with $7 Bluetooth beacons, thanks to Apple's Find My network
A more efficient alternative to the GPS trackers generally used by conservationists
Half-Life beta build from 1998 is uncovered in dusty storage unit
An archivist has shared initial discoveries from a legendary disc
The music industry's latest problem: Archive hard drives from the 90s are failing
TL;DR: The music industry is grappling with a looming crisis regarding its archive of 90s recordings stored on aging hard drives. According to data storage experts at Iron Mountain, around 20 percent of drives from the era are now unreadable. The company is raising concerns that, due to deteriorating formats, insufficient metadata, and increasing disk failures, a significant portion of these historic recordings could be lost forever if urgent action is not taken.
Microsoft releases MS-DOS 4.0 source code and floppy images through an open-source license
The package also includes DOS 4 beta editions and scans of the original documentation
Vanishing act: 87% of classic video games are no longer available commercially
The disappearance of classic video games
Company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth wants to resurrect the dodo
The flightless bird has been extinct since the 1600s
Discmaster can help you quickly find software and media files dating back to the 80s
Search nearly 92 million archived files with Discmaster
Nearly 500 Dreamcast and Xbox prototypes join Project Deluge preservation effort
A boatload of unreleased Xbox and Dreamcast games
Game preservation group puts more than 700 PlayStation 2 prototypes and unreleased demos online
Safeguarding video gaming history