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Amiga1992 · 13 August 2016, 22:41

I'm not complaining about the work of those who care, or undervaluing their job, on the contrary, I'm very grateful.

But I have to generally critique the attitude in software conservation circles, usually mainly geared towards games and not applications/educational. Perhaps this is because it started by guys interested only in games consoles/arcade games.
Also as I said it was people in general not giving a shit about applications, I have seen people write over disks with no regards of what was in them because it wasn't games (coverdisks, PD library disks, applications, etc). This is the biggest problem, and why when now you see a disks collection, it's usually just games.

I'll keep helping whenever I can, to preserve application history.

13 August 2016, 22:41	#6
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	I'm not complaining about the work of those who care, or undervaluing their job, on the contrary, I'm very grateful. But I have to generally critique the attitude in software conservation circles, usually mainly geared towards games and not applications/educational. Perhaps this is because it started by guys interested only in games consoles/arcade games. Also as I said it was people in general not giving a shit about applications, I have seen people write over disks with no regards of what was in them because it wasn't games (coverdisks, PD library disks, applications, etc). This is the biggest problem, and why when now you see a disks collection, it's usually just games. I'll keep helping whenever I can, to preserve application history.