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Shameless self promotion (non-profit, though) but if you're interested in game preservation, and in particular, games that might not be worth a commercial re-re

Shameless self promotion (non-profit, though) but if you're interested in game preservation, and in particular, games that might not be worth a commercial re-release, the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland is always working to save stuff like Habitat. We're running a Kickstarter right now, too, to move into a larger space. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themade/the-museum-of-art-and-digital-entertainment-20 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themade/the-museum-of-a...

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Impressive! I never thought I would see a project to restore Habitat. It is also great to hear you got Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar on board. For those of you who don't know, Habitat was the very first graphical MMO game back in in the 1980s run by the predecessor to AOL. The developers' and moderators' ("oracles'") experience was really interesting for me to read about. They've documented a real-time online virtual world with avatars and its own economy that predates the Eternal September, IRC and the Web. I posted some links in an old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390038.