> Um, some of the history of the scene is getting lost, guys. I don't know any website
> that tracks it.
This is a *really* good point. As far as I know, MAME is the only emulator (except for some standalones from the 1996-1999 timeframe) where every public release has been archived.
What's cool about archive.org's caches of Atmospherical Heights is that it's preserved a lot of those releases, but there's a lot of stuff that they didn't back up in the early days due to storage limitations - IIRC, they used to have fairly small size limits on certain types of file objects that they would retain. And they've pretty much always respected robots.txt directives, so there's quite a bit that's not archived due to that; not following FTP links in HTTP is another consideration, and so on and so forth.
For anyone who may be wondering about the validity of this, try to download KEM 1.10 from this link on archive.org. The download page is there, but the .ZIP archive containing the emulator itself isn't. There are many, many more examples of this sort of thing - just dig for them.
We should really start digging out as much as we can from as many sources as possible and start compiling this somewhere. MAME is pretty well taken care of, but there's related prehistory there that isn't - Nicola's standalone emulators and Multi-Pac, for example.
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
- Robert Heinlein.
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