Also, if I don’t crosslink your post on the game from the Data General drives it’ll probably have slipped my mind, feel free to remind me!

Yay, hello! Thanks back at you, I’m glad that at least these games are preserved!

Your blog is such a resource, thanks so much for maintaining it!

I prefer to be half-glass-full on the amount lost: it’s honestly impressive how much still exists (compared to other mediums). I think adventures in particular had people being more inclined to preserve them. There’s hundreds of 1979-1980 TRS-80 programs from a company called Instant Software where about 95% of them are “lost”, but the one that’s an adventure is preserved. There’s a set of programs by Tom Sato for BBC Micro and the only one that’s been rescued is his “adventure” because it was copied to a tape called “adventures”. Nobody cared about his variation of Star Trek or Scramble.

Sometime in 2026 (likely summer) I’m going to play a lost game recently preserved off of Data General drives that’s absolutely enormous and completely unknown/undocumented, so there’s still more material coming through.