I’ve been going through some of my late father’s possessions and found a stash of VIC-20 cassettes. Some are more well known games, while others are more niche, possibly made by local programmers. Like Pet Frog. I can’t find that one anywhere! Those I’ll definitely extract and upload to archive.org.

What I’m not sure about is some of the utility software. For example, I have cassettes for programmable character set and game graphics editor, loan/mortgage calculator, home inventory, personal finance, VIC typewriter (word processor), space math, biorhythm compatibility, etc.

Are these worth extracting and uploading?

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Seconded. Old stuff that seems worthless sometimes turns out to be sorely missed years later when it can no longer be recovered.

    • Sergio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      Thirded. In fact, in “a corpus of VIC-20 software”, just knowing that the programs were there, were used, their size, how they were implemented, etc might be useful. For sure extract the most interesting-looking stuff first, but if you have time, do as much as you can.