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Probably safest to run it in an emulator with no internet access, given where it was found.
APKs are signed so assuming OP can verify his own certificate he might be lucky enough to not have to dig that deep.
Where did the source code go? I have all the code from dumb little games I made (and never released) from almost 20 years ago.
I've lost so much code, photos and other digital assets over the years. I regret losing most of it, yet I can seem to get started on archiving the things I care about. So many funny little project, so much code I'd like to revisit, so many photos lot. Any recommendations on how to start a life as a digital hoarder?
Step 1: Get a NAS or whatever, and copy over things manually when you know you care about them.
That's pretty much it for at least some basic protections, and not starting a whole project. Just made checksums before you send it, and verify the checksums after you send it, and that's pretty much it.
Then step 2-6 can involve doing encrypted off-site (cloud) syncing of your backups, automatic backuping and so on, but as a first step, just do something small and easy, so it won't feel like a hassle in the future.
Where did the source code go? I have all the code from dumb little games I made (and never released) from almost 20 years ago.
I've lost so much code, photos and other digital assets over the years. I regret losing most of it, yet I can seem to get started on archiving the things I care about. So many funny little project, so much code I'd like to revisit, so many photos lot. Any recommendations on how to start a life as a digital hoarder?
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I've lost so much code, photos and other digital assets over the years. I regret losing most of it, yet I can seem to get started on archiving the things I care about. So many funny little project, so much code I'd like to revisit, so many photos lot. Any recommendations on how to start a life as a digital hoarder?
> Any recommendations on how to start a life as a digital hoarder Stop worrying about a well collated archive and just dump everything in a suitable storage medium. I've got years of random side projects and pretty much every photo I've taken going back many years. It's a complete mess, with various duplications, it's just not that big (few hundred GB maybe? I'm away from home so can't open up my NAS and look) so not…
I've been doing that for most of my things too (except projects, they get categorized and more), just shuck it all into one big directory, worked perfectly well for 20+ years!
And, since I punted organizing it for so many years, we now have LLMs, and I've ended up writing a tiny CLI that keeps an index of this disorganized pile, so while the pile itself is disorganized, thanks to LLM it was trivial to let it run for some days to categorize, tag and sort it all into an index.
Another successful example of my life philosophy of "everything solves itself eventually".
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As far as software projects go I'd say GitHub or whatever VCS you prefer. For photos and documents etc you could look into cloud storage like OneDrive. A friend recently told me about filen.io which provides a similar service but with encryption. Not sure whether OneDrive also supports encryption.
I really want to store things locally though, and then just stick with cloud as backup. The problem is I also don't want to manage anything complex.
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Amazing! Now you need to find a device that can still run it :-)
The Internet Archive already has some emulation support, perhaps Android support is needed? If OP is willing to transfer the copyright to the Archive for $1, I'm happy to facilitate so it has a permanent home. https://archive.org/details/howtodoupload (i have archived the APK in Wayback just in case the source in this thread disappears)
You can use Android Studio (or other virtualization / emulation) to set up an older version of Android and then you use one of the various sites that "archive" games: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/past-releases/... https://www.mobygames.com/game/54420/putter-king-adventure-g... I've used Bluestacks to play the entire somewhat recent Monkey Island game on PC because I could not be bothered to play it o…
I found the apk file and I played around with Android Studio today but was having trouble getting the Nexus device with KittyKat or Lollipop to not crash when trying to open the device. Will keep trying different options.
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I've lost so much code, photos and other digital assets over the years. I regret losing most of it, yet I can seem to get started on archiving the things I care about. So many funny little project, so much code I'd like to revisit, so many photos lot. Any recommendations on how to start a life as a digital hoarder?
> Any recommendations on how to start a life as a digital hoarder Stop worrying about a well collated archive and just dump everything in a suitable storage medium. I've got years of random side projects and pretty much every photo I've taken going back many years. It's a complete mess, with various duplications, it's just not that big (few hundred GB maybe? I'm away from home so can't open up my NAS and look) so not…
The absolute worst approach I tried was to curate things. Nothing got filed. Embracing the chaos allowed the pattern to evolve around my revealed workflows, and now after a couple years I pretty much know where to instantly find or file things.
How about making a new game with help from your son (even if it’s ideas) and making some new memories? ;-) The problem I found is that a lot of the stuff I made is tied to the hardware, OS and SDKs I used to make and run it (especially PalmOS and J2ME stuff - although Apple is just as bad.) Luckily I’ve been able to find an emulator called Cloudpilot Emu to run some of my old PalmOS games in the browser. I think if I…
It was what prompted him to ask about this game.
You can use Android Studio (or other virtualization / emulation) to set up an older version of Android and then you use one of the various sites that "archive" games: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/past-releases/... https://www.mobygames.com/game/54420/putter-king-adventure-g... I've used Bluestacks to play the entire somewhat recent Monkey Island game on PC because I could not be bothered to play it o…
Why didn't you just play the PC version of Return to Monkey Island?