Hi Gavin.
I full agree with you and all those, who are thinking in the same way.
And I offer you my help, as I can send you a list of my collected SAM
stuff of more than thousands programs of all sort I collected in many
years (worldwide) to show what was programmed for the SAM. If you want,
please tell me and I make you a PDF file of the list. And the programs
aren´t rotten as I have put them to a PC harddisk as dsk-files in the
way I told before.
Why aren´t we able to follow the INDEPENDENT Spectrum szene???? Where
also new games and programs are created and published for free!!! To
keep the Spectrum (szene) alive!
So come on - do it! It gives a lot of SAM users on the continental side
the possibility to see programs, they never knew they exist and they
never knew where to get them from.
And long live SAM!
Wolfgang
Gavin Smith wrote:
However, I do take your point that floppy disks have a limited
lifespan, so we should try to make sure that everything is imaged and
catalogued. Perhaps we could maintain a list of what images exist -
not necessarily to release the images right now, but to make sure
that everything will still be available, as and when we can agree on
what is the right thing to do with it.
It's 2004, how many more years are we going to talk about it? :) My
suggestion was that we have a consultation period (bit of a fancy term
when referring to SAM software!) of about 4 weeks for each and every
bit of software before we post the image online. If we can get the
author's written permission in that time, great. If we can think of a
reason not to post the image (or indeed if the author refuses
permission), then obviously we don't.
Isn't that the lesser of two evils? One evil is to let the stuff rot
away (we're the last few remaining who give a stuff about the SAM
remember so let's not lose perspective), lost forever - the other evil
is to go to reasonable lengths to gain permission, and failing that we
post images that we think aren't too controversial. I really think
it's the most sensible of the two.
I'll have something on the net before the weekend is out and we can
debate it - it will give us something to talk about at least ;)
Gavin
