Activision and Lightspan Partnership hard drive backup [Macintosh 8mm data tape], 1988–1994
Scope and Contents
This hard drive (titled "nonnetwork backups-1" when recovered) contains files from William Volk's work at Activision from 1988–1994, as well as some files and videos related to Volk's work at Lightspan Partnership.
Dates
- 1988–1994
Creator
- William Volk (Producer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The Video Game History Foundation has been given permission by William Volk to reproduce material in this collection. The intellectual property rights for these materials remains with their respective owners.
Access to sensitive materials and proprietary code has been restricted by the Video Game History Foundation (see the "Scope and Contents" note for this collection). Closed access to these materials may be provided to individual researchers on request at the discretion of the Video Game History Foundation library staff.
Extent
551.94 Megabytes
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
William Volk's backup tape was digitized by volunteer Keith Kaisershot. Volk used a Macintosh computer, and the data was digitized was two HFS+ disk images. The original disk images have been retained for archival storage.
We have attempted to present as many files as possible in a modern format in order to be viewed in-browser. However, many files could not be identified or converted due to their obsolete and proprietary formats. In particular, this affects files related to the MADE and FLEX multimedia development formats. Unparsable files have either been omitted or marked as unreadable.
Several files could not be easily extracted and converted due to using the classic Mac OS-specific resource fork format.
For a complete list of all files originally on each hard drive, see the "Manifest" file uploaded alongside this drive in the digital archive.
- 3DO games and platform
- Activision (Production company)
- Business correspondence
- CD-i games and platform
- Computer games
- Cyan, Inc (Production company)
- Educational games
- Game production materials
- Game production materials -- Full-motion video production
- Game production materials -- Product development
- Game production materials -- Technical materials
- Infocom (Production company)
- Licensed video games
- Lightspan, Inc (Production company)
- Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (Production company)
- Multimedia and CD-ROMs
- Nintendo games and platforms
- Personal correspondence
- Sega games and platforms
- Source code
- Source materials
Creator
- William Volk (Producer, Person)
Source
- William Volk (Donor, Person)
- Andrew Harrington (Donor, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository