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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] Skyline969@piefed.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

Guess it’s time to archive Myrient. A group of people could take care of it - split it into categories, download, and then sit on it until a new host can be found.

Entire categories are easy to download with a simple curl call.

this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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