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On 13 September 2020, Obscure Gamers founder Damien announced plans to purchase a lot of hard disk drives that had been used by Data Design Interactive Ltd. The lot was priced as US$1,000 and contained twenty-two hard drives; nine of the drives were damaged or would not power on, however, and required specialist repair work that would cost more than the purchase price. Damien posted a thread on the site's forums with a fundraiser to help purchase and repair the drives. The initial fundraising goal was US$2,500 (plus a buffer of $250 for [[Wikipedia:PayPal|PayPal's]] fees); the first thousand dollars would be used for purchasing the lot, and any additional fund would go towards recovery costs.<ref name="OG thread 2779"/> | On 13 September 2020, Obscure Gamers founder Damien announced plans to purchase a lot of hard disk drives that had been used by Data Design Interactive Ltd. The lot was priced as US$1,000 and contained twenty-two hard drives; nine of the drives were damaged or would not power on, however, and required specialist repair work that would cost more than the purchase price. Damien posted a thread on the site's forums with a fundraiser to help purchase and repair the drives. The initial fundraising goal was US$2,500 (plus a buffer of $250 for [[Wikipedia:PayPal|PayPal's]] fees); the first thousand dollars would be used for purchasing the lot, and any additional fund would go towards recovery costs.<ref name="OG thread 2779"/> | ||
The following day Damien announced that the fundraiser had reached 37% of its goal, enough to ensure the lot could be purchased.<ref name="OG post 17916"/> | |||
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<ref name="OG thread 2779">{{cite web |url=https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/data-design-interactive-hdd-group-buy-repair-costs.2779 |title=Data Design Interactive HDD Group Buy & Repair costs |type=Forum thread |author=Damien |date=13 September 2020 |website=Obscure Gamers |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200921025850/https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/data-design-interactive-hdd-group-buy-repair-costs.2779 |archive-date=21 September 2020}}</ref> | <ref name="OG thread 2779">{{cite web |url=https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/data-design-interactive-hdd-group-buy-repair-costs.2779 |title=Data Design Interactive HDD Group Buy & Repair costs |type=Forum thread |author=Damien |date=13 September 2020 |website=Obscure Gamers |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200921025850/https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/data-design-interactive-hdd-group-buy-repair-costs.2779 |archive-date=21 September 2020}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="OG post 17916">{{cite web |url=https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/data-design-interactive-hdd-group-buy-repair-costs.2779/#post-17916 |title=Just a minor update, we've hit 37% of the goal meaning the HDD's are now secured (minus repair/recovery costs). |type=comment on forum thread "Data Design Interactive HDD Group Buy & Repair costs" |author=Damien |date=14 September 2020 |website=Obscure Gamers |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20201117235236/https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/data-design-interactive-hdd-group-buy-repair-costs.2779/#post-17916 |archive-date=17 November 2020}}</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 21:03, 16 September 2025
The Data Design Interactive lot is a collection of hard disk drives formerly owned by British video game developer Data Design Interactive. The hard drives were purchased by members of the video game preservation website Obscure Gamers in September 2020. The files recovered from the hard drives have been referred to as the Data Design Interactive dump or DDI Dump. As a number of the hard drives were damaged, recovery efforts are still underway.
History
On 13 September 2020, Obscure Gamers founder Damien announced plans to purchase a lot of hard disk drives that had been used by Data Design Interactive Ltd. The lot was priced as US$1,000 and contained twenty-two hard drives; nine of the drives were damaged or would not power on, however, and required specialist repair work that would cost more than the purchase price. Damien posted a thread on the site's forums with a fundraiser to help purchase and repair the drives. The initial fundraising goal was US$2,500 (plus a buffer of $250 for PayPal's fees); the first thousand dollars would be used for purchasing the lot, and any additional fund would go towards recovery costs.[1]
The following day Damien announced that the fundraiser had reached 37% of its goal, enough to ensure the lot could be purchased.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Damien (13 September 2020). "Data Design Interactive HDD Group Buy & Repair costs". Obscure Gamers (Forum thread). Archived from the original on 21 September 2020.
- ↑ Damien (14 September 2020). "Just a minor update, we've hit 37% of the goal meaning the HDD's are now secured (minus repair/recovery costs)". Obscure Gamers (comment on forum thread "Data Design Interactive HDD Group Buy & Repair costs"). Archived from the original on 17 November 2020.
