#softwarepreservation

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991. it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper. as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here: https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal originally from robyn's site: http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films #digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

software mystery: does anyone have an archived copy of Case Western University's "FreePort" Free-Net software? this is the collection of server daemons and scripts that, collected together, formed the backbone of most FreeNets. despite the tools being free, the collected package and scripts were not free, and were sold and licensed to freenet operators. (chebucto appeared a few years later as a free replacement (and it is still available for download) - but it's not the same software package as FreePort.) boosts very welcome. #digiPres #softwarepreservation