Category Archives: Software Archive

Those Hilarious Times When Emulations Stop Working

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, Software Curator and Your Emulation Buddy, writing in. With tens of thousands of items in the archive.org stacks that are in some way running in-browser emulations, we’ve got a pretty strong library of computing history afoot, with many more joining … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Software Archive, Technical | 2 Comments

Saving 500 Apple II Programs from Oblivion

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Jason Scott

Among the tens of thousands of computer programs now emulated in the browser at the Internet Archive, a long-growing special collection has hit a milestone: the 4am Collection is now past 500 available Apple II programs preserved for the first time. … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Software Archive | 12 Comments

Internet Archive Does Windows: Hundreds of Windows 3.1 Programs Join the Collection

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Jason Scott

Microsoft Windows was, to some people, too little, too late. Released as Version 1.0 in 1985, the graphic revolution was already happening elsewhere, with other computer operating systems – but Microsoft was determined to catch up, no matter what it … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Software Archive | 100 Comments

NEW at the Archive Store! MS-DOS “Game Not Over!” T-Shirt

Posted on June 5, 2015 by jeff kaplan

Designed by Jason Scott, the new “Game Not Over!” T-shirt is a celebration of the over 2,000 MS-DOS games that are once again available to play on archive.org. The shirt is currently available in a number of sizes at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool items, Emulation, Games, News, Software Archive | 2 Comments

Making Your DOS Programs Live Again at the Internet Archive

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Jason Scott

Since the beginning of the year, the Internet Archive has been making a large amount of DOS-based games and programs run in the browser, much like our Console Living Room and Internet Arcade collections. Many thousands of people have stopped … Continue reading →

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archive.org download counts of collections of items updates and fixes

Posted on January 26, 2015 by traceypooh

Every month, we look over the total download counts for all public items at archive.org. We sum item counts into their collections. At year end 2014, we found various source reliability issues, as well as overcounting for “top collections” and … Continue reading →

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Mirroring the Stone Oakvalley Music Collection

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive has begun mirroring a fantastic collection of music called the “Stone Oakvalley Music Collection”. When you visit one of their websites, the archive.org mirror is one of the choices for download. Going forward, the Archive will offer a … Continue reading →

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Inviting the Internet Over to Play

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Jason Scott

At our Annual Event last week, the Archive announced a variety of new projects and plans, including our new beta interface, our compact book scanner, and our progress in tracking political ads on television. The event (full video is here) … Continue reading →

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Free the Screenshots!

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Jason Scott

As the Archive moves more widely into the archiving of software, it quickly becomes apparent that there’s going to be an awful lot of programs online without much indication of what they are. With many thousands of programs or program … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive Declares Spacewar!

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Jason Scott

Like everything else in history, debate rages about when the “first” video game came into being. Games and demonstrations such as “Tennis for Two” (1958), “NIM” (1951) and “Mouse in the Maze” (1959), played on million dollar equipment for the … Continue reading →

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Magazine in movie “WarGames” is discovered using an Internet Archive Collection

Posted on December 19, 2013 by brewster

An intrepid researcher wanted to figure out what magazine was used in movie WarGames and using the Internet Archive collection found it was Creative Computing. (which was a key magazine for me in the 70’s when I sold … Continue reading →

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Microcomputer Software Lives Again, This Time in Your Browser

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Jason Scott

The miracle is now so commonplace that it’s invisible: we have the ability to watch video, listen to music, and read documents right in our browsers. You might get a hankering to hear some old time radio, or classic television programs, … Continue reading →

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Archive of Historical Computer Software is here

Posted on April 14, 2013 by brewster

Thanks to Jason Scott, lots of deep collecting communities, and volunteers, Jason is announcing that the Internet Archive now hosts some very large software and computer documentation collections, maybe the largest overall host. Yippie! Now we all have to make … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Software Archive | 11 Comments

Hard Drive Archaeology – And Hackerspaces

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Jason Scott

Two different, but somewhat related additions to the archive you might want to check out. First, I was contacted earlier this week about a project to recover information off of an old Cray-1 supercomputer hard drive. Unlike, say, trying to … Continue reading →

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Time for Wine

Posted on July 18, 2007 by aravis77

The Internet Archive is located in San Francisco, and so to celebrate our proximity to some of the most renowned wine regions in the world, we bring you this entry about our favorite ferment. This entry contains aromas of cedar, … Continue reading →

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