From gaf.linux at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 14:07:30 2022 From: gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:07:30 -0400 Subject: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting , Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - Free Software Game Restoration Message-ID: <88dd634f-7de9-16ac-cfee-6388f82f691f@gmail.com> When: April 20, 2022 7:00PM EDT (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Free Software Game Restoration Moderator: Dennis Payne Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org Live stream: https://youtu.be/ZCAoE6aigcE Summary: An update to a talk Dennis gave at LibrePlanet 2019 and BLU Januay 2019 Abstract: Games are part of our culture, like books and movies. While we have access to some older games via emulators, we are failing to save our free software history. Many developers try to develop a game, and then the game reaches a satisfactory state or the developer just moves on. Finding these games can be hard. Eventually libraries or languages change, and the game no longer runs. This talk will discuss restoring games for future players to enjoy. Bio Dennis Payne is a senior software engineer at Skillsoft. He has worked on the commercial game Devil's Whiskey. He maintains several open source games like Bt Builder and Ostrich Riders. He contributes to packaging in the Fedora distribution. Attachments Dennis' 2019 LibrePlanet talk: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-game-restoration/ For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site: http://www.blu.org -- Jerry Feldman > Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1? 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 From gaf.linux at gmail.com Tue Apr 19 18:14:11 2022 From: gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:14:11 -0400 Subject: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting , reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - Free Software Game Restoration Message-ID: When: April 20, 2022 7:00PM EDT (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Free Software Game Restoration Moderator: Dennis Payne Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org Live stream: https://youtu.be/ZCAoE6aigcE Summary: An update to a talk Dennis gave at LibrePlanet 2019 and BLU Januay 2019 Abstract: Games are part of our culture, like books and movies. While we have access to some older games via emulators, we are failing to save our free software history. Many developers try to develop a game, and then the game reaches a satisfactory state or the developer just moves on. Finding these games can be hard. Eventually libraries or languages change, and the game no longer runs. This talk will discuss restoring games for future players to enjoy. Bio Dennis Payne is a senior software engineer at Skillsoft. He has worked on the commercial game Devil's Whiskey. He maintains several open source games like Bt Builder and Ostrich Riders. He contributes to packaging in the Fedora distribution. Attachments Dennis' 2019 LibrePlanet talk: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-game-restoration/ For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site: http://www.blu.org -- Jerry Feldman > Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1? 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7