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- From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- Subject: Re: Looking for info on Apple II preservation project (GEnie)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.194617.26696@unlv.edu>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
- Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 19:46:17 GMT
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- Picked this up from GEnie...
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- Contact: Timothy Tobin July 24, 1992
- Phone: (310) 813-5697
- GEnie E-Mail: A2.TIM (Preferred contact)
-
- For Immediate Release
-
- GENIE FIGHTS TO PRESERVE CLASSIC APPLE II SOFTWARE
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- General Electric Information Service (GEnie) is preserving
- discontinued commercial Apple II software by persuading authors to
- allow archiving of their programs and by re-releasing some programs as
- Shareware or Freeware, or arranging for software to be placed in the
- Public Domain.
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- GEnie's Lost Classics project will make copies of participating Apple
- II software available in GEnie's A2 Roundtable and release source
- codes in the A2Pro Roundtable for preservation and updating purposes.
- Dean Esmay, GEnie's Apple II Roundtable manager said, "The Apple II's
- effect on modern computing has changed the way an entire generation
- thinks and acts. We are not about to let that pass into oblivion."
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- The following are the primary goals of this effort:
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- o Find and preserve Classic Apple II software including
- source code, whenever possible, in order to prevent
- inadvertent loss due to accident or misplacement. These
- will be stored as electronically compressed archives on
- optical disk cartridges.
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- o Provide access to commercial software titles which have
- otherwise become unavailable.
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- o Provide a center for dated software in need of updating
- to remain compatible with modern Apple II hardware and
- system software. This may include contracting with
- third-party programmers.
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- GEnie seeks to enlist the help of both the Apple II user and
- programmer communities in locating copyright owners and helping to
- preserve Apple II Lost Classics. For further information, modem users
- may visit the A2 Roundtable on GEnie or send GEnie E-mail to A2.HELP.
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- A2 is the Apple II Users Roundtable on GEnie and A2Pro is GEnie's
- Apple II Programmers and Developers Roundtable.
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- Shareware, Freeware and Public Domain software may be freely copied by
- the public. These have become popular alternatives to traditional
- software publishing. In the case of Shareware, a user is honor-bound
- to mail a specified payment to the author should the customer continue
- using it after a free trial period.
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