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1. PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 01:37:05 JST PulkoMandy

   I remember playing various edutainment videogames as a kid, they seem not very well archived. Things like Tim 7 (a kid who had his brain erased by a mad scientist and had to relearn French and Math and stuff), Lecture Enjeu (some kind of interactive fiction, several adventures, one of them involved breaking into the school during the weekend to recover a forgotten pair of glasses)

   Was this only a French thing? Did you have any similar things? Anyone taking care of archiving these?

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 01:36:54 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @pulkomandy There's possibly software made for specific schools/school groups
     
     When I was a kid, in QC, there was a Macintosh Classic app called "L'arbre à lettres", which was more or less a series of minigames puzzles and it lasted like 5-10mins
     
     There is nothing about it online
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 01:38:10 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Allan Christophersen
     @duffadash @pulkomandy the problem with such archives is that by the time the copyright is out, will there even be a way to probably run them, or anyone else that actually gives a shit about it? How disappointing. A lot of these were decades of computer/OSes ago, they should be freed already
   • Allan Christophersen (duffadash@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 01:38:14 JST Allan Christophersen

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     @pulkomandy Thankfully many national archives do actually have most edutainment titles archived, the issue is more that they have no real legal way to make said games available to the general public due to restrictive laws.

   • PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 01:42:46 JST PulkoMandy

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • Allan Christophersen

     @coolboymew @duffadash The BNF has on-site consultation for some of them. For Lectures Enjeu you can go there and ask them for the floppy disk! Other things have been "digitalized" (well, that doesn't really make sense) and can be accessed from on-site computers (not sure in what format, do they provinde an emulator for old Windows versions?).

     Certainly not a perfect solution, but better than nothing, I guess.

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 01:43:43 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Allan Christophersen
     @pulkomandy @duffadash archive.org has dosbox, Genesis and more emulators that you can play from the browser. That would be the better solution, but honestly, the best solution would be to just freely distribute it at this point