The Internet Archive now hosts thousands of classic games from the Apple II as part of his collection Apple II Library: The 4am , and all the games are presented free playable in modern web browsers.
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The 4am collection is an initiative by an amateur who has kept more than 500 games for the Apple II in their original formats, eliminating altered formats, or copies distributed by hackers as part of preservation efforts Internet Archive.
While the Internet Archive, the nonprofit organization dedicated to archiving the web and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, already hosts a significant amount of games Apple II, many key titles were missing in due to advanced protection against copying routines used by various publishers. Although many of these games have been cracked successfully upon release, the widespread proliferation of copies and pirated versions made it very difficult to play them using original emulators.
Legitimate games
"To understand this achievement, it is best to explain what 4am (a person or persons unnamed) mentioned as his motivations: to track down the Apple II programs, particularly those that have not been duplicated or widely distributed, and remove protection against copying, which prevents them from being copied " , explained the archivist Jason Scott in a recent blog post.
"Applications have included protection against copying routines that went to change the performance of the floppy drive, or force the operating system of the Apple II to behave strangely" writes Scott.
Classic games from the Apple II that are now playable in the browser on the Internet Archive include Pitfall II , BurgerTime , The Observatory , Ballblazer and Championship Lode Runner.
In addition to its collection on the Apple II, the Internet Archive also offers thousands of free games for MS-DOS and Windows 3.x playable from a browser.
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The 4am collection is an initiative by an amateur who has kept more than 500 games for the Apple II in their original formats, eliminating altered formats, or copies distributed by hackers as part of preservation efforts Internet Archive.
Legitimate games
"To understand this achievement, it is best to explain what 4am (a person or persons unnamed) mentioned as his motivations: to track down the Apple II programs, particularly those that have not been duplicated or widely distributed, and remove protection against copying, which prevents them from being copied " , explained the archivist Jason Scott in a recent blog post.
"Applications have included protection against copying routines that went to change the performance of the floppy drive, or force the operating system of the Apple II to behave strangely" writes Scott.
Classic games from the Apple II that are now playable in the browser on the Internet Archive include Pitfall II , BurgerTime , The Observatory , Ballblazer and Championship Lode Runner.
In addition to its collection on the Apple II, the Internet Archive also offers thousands of free games for MS-DOS and Windows 3.x playable from a browser.