Pazaz
December 20, 2024, 11:56pm
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Posting to get more visibility for RS Archive:https://rs-archive.github.io
RuneScape is an online game launched in 2001 that could be played in browser. The game has had thousands of updates since its launch each with unique content and features. However, the game’s developers did not start keeping comprehensive backups until 2012, with only 2 versions surving from before then. Everything else is lost.
However, if you ever tried the game once on a computer just for a few seconds, the full files would be downloaded and stored on the hard drive. We’ve found many missing old versions of Runescape this way and it would be great if archivists here could check any old computers, laptops, hard drives, or backups they have.
The files were located in:
C:\WINDOWS\cache-93423-17382-59373-28323 (2001-2002)C:\WINDOWS.file_store_32 (2003-2007)C:\WINDOWS.jagex_cache_32 (2007-2011)
We are also offering a $500 reward to anyone who finds a lost version from 2001-2004 ($250 if the files are incomplete)
Thanks in advance.
Help if you can! Their discord and instructions are in the first link. Their efforts are admirable.
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Ids
February 3, 2025, 2:27pm
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All my computers that may have the file found their final resting place in the city dump, but I may have two from around 2007-2012. If there’s any interest, I can visit my parents place – I probably have old backups on an old HDD. However, that’s a Mac. Are Mac files the same or also welcome? Otherwise I don’t need to bother going through everything in our storage.
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