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VCF Midwest 2026 演讲《Building a Living 90s Internet for Vintage Computers》，介绍如何为老式计算机搭建一个可运行的 90 年代风格互联网环境。

被索尼下架的恐怖游戏经典《P.T.》由独立开发者 Xavier 推出免费 PC 移植版，他承认使用 AI 工具进行调试排错，同时强调多年研究 Fox Engine 的人工投入。该移植对游戏保存者具有重要意义，有助于长期维护这款历史级游戏的公众可访问性。

作者讲述了如何让老旧的 Macromedia Director 冒险游戏在现代硬件上运行，包括解析 CloneCD 镜像、绕过基于畸形目录条目的文件级复制保护等逆向工程过程。

Marcin Wichary archives his 2022 Twitter thread describing visits to three Dutch computer museums — HomeComputerMuseum in Helmond, Bonami SpelComputer Museum in Zwolle, and a private DEC barn — highlighting regional hardware like the Aesthedes graphics system.

A hobbyist details how they revived Valve's 2011 Adobe AIR/Flash e-book 'The Final Hours of Portal 2' by decompiling its SWF files and patching broken external web dependencies, publishing a Steam guide so others can restore its polls, panoramas, audio, and demos.

The Interim Computer Museum is restoring a DECsystem1060 computer named KICKI, including efforts to revive its memory modules and CPUs with assistance from former DEC personnel.

GOG has launched a 'Printable Big Box' collection, offering downloadable 3D models and printable templates for classic PC game packaging to preserve gaming nostalgia.

The article describes efforts to index and preserve the Computer Museum of America collection stored at San Diego State University, highlighting its significance as a repository of computer revolution artifacts.

A work-in-progress simulator for the French CII Mitra-15 minicomputer, developed for the SIMH historical computer simulator, aiming to preserve and study this vintage computing hardware.

The Treventus ScanRobot scans books at high speed without damaging spines, using a 60-degree V-cradle and airflow to turn pages while scanning both sides simultaneously.

A historical researcher criticizes the practice of destroying antique books by cutting their spines for AI model training data, arguing it causes irreversible loss of valuable historical information and data that cannot be recovered.

PCjs uses JavaScript to emulate vintage computer hardware and software from the 1970s and 1980s, allowing retro computing experiences in a browser.

Proposes FoLoRA, a forgetting-aware optimization framework for fine-tuning foundation models that balances task utility and forgetting penalty via generalized Rayleigh-quotient optimization, achieving better preservation of non-target capabilities.

This article describes the CRC Generator, a command-line tool for generating Verilog/VHDL CRC code, and its archival on GitHub by Julia Desmazes to preserve the tool originally by Evgeni Stavinov.

A panel discussion at the AIAA ASCEND conference explored how to preserve historically significant artifacts from the International Space Station before its planned deorbit around 2030.

A detailed account of the first complete reverse engineering, documentation, and emulation of Fisher-Price Pixter devices and their games, covering hardware analysis, ROM dumping, and software emulation.

The Aadam Jacobs Collection Project is a volunteer effort to digitize and preserve over 10,000 live music recordings spanning three decades, including early performances by bands like Nirvana and Phish, with the goal of uploading them to the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive within 2-3 years.