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I’m friends with the guy who made the Winamp skin museum and Webamp (Jordan Elderedge) and can put you two in contact if that’d be useful.

Sounds like something that could be done on Mojo maybe? In the past we have talked about doing things like that for the games database.

I agree, the ideal presentation would be in the form of a more elaborate website or app. I'm thinking of features like thumbnails and light box view, but also the ability to zoom into the images, switch between different versions of the same background, toggle aspect ratio correction, maybe simulating a CRT screen, etc. Edit: Ah, screw it, I converted them all. Acrobat created a bookmark for each page, named after the file, so those names are still intact as well. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C3v3cQNGdU6qgElSDKxen5OeU1OtGUNF?usp=sharing

I’m sure you know this, but if you go to web.archive.org, it will automatically store copies of websites it knows about for all eternity. As far as I’m aware these aren’t compressed, and it is presented exactly as you chose to do so. It is also versioned by date. Now, the discovery part is more challenging. There is no end of gold out there, but knowing it’s there is another story. It also struggled a lot more to capture everything with the early web, while it is much better nowadays — and if you manually trawl your archive and notice something is missing, you can command it to fetch it from the live page for future copies. One thought I have had (with regards to my own projects like brutallegend.net and razputin.net (which now exist on web.archive.org only) and perhaps eventually grimfandango.net is to ensure they are archived properly on the web archive, and then perhaps find some way of linking to a certain copy on archive.org itself so it’s easier for people to find. https://web.archive.org/web/20010301044512/http://www.mixnmojo.com/

Heyy, thanks for the writeup! I ended up soft-launching the bot part of this first, on Mastodon and Cohost, because the code part was easy and the data was ready to go. I was planning on "announcing" it officially from my main accounts on those respective sites sometime this week, once the masto version had a couple more posts in its timeline. It's all good, they're out in the world and I'm happy to have people looking at em. I'm a little more uncertain on how best to make the actual images available in a collection, as I originally intended. The more I looked at archive.org, the more I realized it wasn't actually a great way to publish and browse certain collections of images - it's more of a "here's a big dump of stuff, all in one big directory" sort of thing, and you don't have much of any control over how it's presented, eg it's a long tiled scroll of square thumbnails. I'd really like to present this work in a format that's easy to browse (ie sorted by game and by game-version) and appreciate its visual quality (ie original res + click to view larger in a lightbox)... but I'm not sure what websites are out there for doing this, that has the commitments to archival integrity that archive.org does - ie I don't want to use one of those image hosting sites (like imgur) that are just going to "pull a photobucket" and vanish from the web when the VC cash runs out, leaving tons of broken links. This kinda includes even my own personal website, which even if bandwidth cost me nothing isn't going to be a reliable place to keep data for the long term future. I'm also thinking about the copyright status of this work - obviously the original artwork is LucasFilm's copyright, and I don't want to do anything that would make them feel like their work is being "pirated" or anything (even though it's hard to imagine it being used in this way - people using it in their own games without attribution?). In various senses these images are highly edited screenshots, and I've read several assertions online that game screenshots count as "derivative works". But they're very obviously not my artwork; the whole point of this is to celebrate the actual artists. I've used Creative Commons licenses for some things I've personally created in the past, but this is not that kind of case, so I don't think I have any right to stick a CC license on these files. So I dunno, I'd love to share the full collection of this stuff, but I'm not sure what the best outlet and format would be. Suggestions welcome but certainly not expected! Thanks again for the technical and moral support so far.

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