TheLegacy
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| Computer games archive | |
| languages | English German |
| On-line | 1999 (currently inactive) |
| http://www.thelegacy.de/ | |
In TheLegacy (from the English legacy , legacy ') is, since a 2018 inactive German-language computer games - database that have become virtual museum goes for computer and video games and consciously nostalgia sets.
Building on this understanding, the database is not subject to any current requirement and is rather a platform for collectors and nostalgics, who are given the opportunity to manage their collections and to find out about the most varied of games.
Information is available on over 40,196 games for 136 different systems, which are illustrated by a theoretically unlimited number of screenshots (50 per system), covers and detailed shots of the game package contents.
The database is fed by the visitors in an open support, the information provided is checked by moderators for syntactic correctness.
history
TheLegacy already existed in the early 1990s and was set up by Frank Böttger (mishRa). From 1999 this version was gradually converted into an online version by him and his brother Andreas Böttger (DoM), which continued until July 27, 2000. From 2000 to 2003, information, as well as screenshots and cover scans, were sent by e-mail from the supporters to TheLegacy Team, which then posted the data online at irregular intervals in the form of a master update. The introduction of an upload system for all data in 2003 made the provision of data, screenshots and scans much easier for the supporters. With the introduction of the new system, Christian Klein (Lightknight) also joined the previous duo at the end of 2003. The team is now supported by various moderators.
In the period from around 2010 to 2015, the number of active moderators steadily decreased, which also had a negative impact on the processing of submitted support. Usually there is now only one really active moderator who handles the majority of the submitted supports in irregular, short processing cycles.
Since around 2013 the website has been struggling with recurring technical problems, e.g. B. in the period from July to August 2015 caused a total failure of the website. Before and after that, there were total failures that lasted for hours or days. In the absence of an active operator of the website, an end to the current problems is not in sight. Numerous discussions in the forum for the website addressed this problem years ago.
Due to the technically unmanageable requirements, the site was taken offline on May 24, 2018, before the General Data Protection Regulation came into force .
A continuation of the site and its migration to a current system was discussed for a long time. To this day, however, the site's future remains uncertain.
Awards
November 2000 - "History Award" from "The Dot Eaters & The Number Crunchers" (8-Bit-Museum)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.kultpower.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=32840
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History Award ( Memento from March 3, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
