Feature: Saving “virtual worlds” from extinction

Feature: Saving “virtual worlds” from extinction
Sometime this August, librarians at the University of Illinois will finish archiving over a dozen famous computer games , then step back to consider where to go next with their project. These programs go back over four decades, and include a 1993 version of Doom , various editions of Warcraft , and even MIT’s Spacewar! circa 1962. We wondered, given the gaming nature of most of the software …

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