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ddingus
on May 25, 2023
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The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tap...
You mean the "if you are reading this in the distant future" instructions are written to the medium first? And are straight up ASCII?
Nice. That kind of thing makes too much sense. Wow. Such cheap insurance. Nice work from that team.
hlandau
on May 26, 2023
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Yeah. If I ever wrote a backup system I'd do this too, write the whole spec for the format first to every medium. A 100k specification describing the format is nothing to waste on a medium which can store 10TB.
ddingus
on June 4, 2023
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Seriously. Scale really changes things.
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Nice. That kind of thing makes too much sense. Wow. Such cheap insurance. Nice work from that team.