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Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) PC Floppy Disk Image Collection

Rincewind

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One of my DOSBox Staging comrades brought this nice collection to my attention just now. It's a work in progress, but I very much appreciate the effort of the guys to archive all floppy SSI games in all released formats for preservation purposes. They even have flux-level dumps for some, which is an exact copy of the magnetic level information of the original media (required to accurately archive some more elaborate copy protections).

https://archive.org/details/20220918_20220918_1709

Apparently, the same group of people have been working on similar floppy collections, e.g. this is one for all Sierra games:
https://archive.org/details/20220303_20220303_0527

There are more under the user Digitoxin's ("Digital Preservationist") profile (plus a rather nice set of Win98-era ISO dumps):
https://archive.org/details/@digitoxin

There's a Discord channel too for discussing his PC floppy game preservation efforts:
https://discord.gg/MvqYswZQ4f
 
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MLMarkland

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One of my DOSBox Staging comrades brought this nice collection to my attention just now. It's a work in progress, but I very much appreciate the effort of the guys to archive all floppy SSI games in all released formats for preservation purposes. They even have flux-level dumps for some, which is an exact copy of the magnetic level information of the original media (required to accurately archive some more elaborate copy protections).

https://archive.org/details/20220918_20220918_1709

Apparently the same group of people have been working on similar floppy collections, e.g. this is one for all Sierra games:
https://archive.org/details/20220303_20220303_0527

There's more under the user Digitoxin's ("Digital Preservationist") profile (plus a rather nice set of Win98-era ISO dumps):
https://archive.org/details/@digitoxin

There's a Discord channel too for discussing his PC floppy game preservation efforts:
https://discord.gg/MvqYswZQ4f
Cool
 

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