I've scanned all my discs with DVDisaster and i store both the image and the checksum on my disc for that very reason.

When I replace a game with a DRM free version I usually give away the older copy, but in general I only do that if the new copy is deeply discounted or the previous one was hard to run on the new computer.

I own a 3.5" USB drive and it works fine. I've seen set ups for 5.25" disks as well. The problem though is that floppies were never particularly reliable and any game old enough to be sold on floppy disk has probably already degraded enough to require specialist knowledge and several copies to properly dump to HDD.

I've cleaned them, put in envelopes, stored everything in box wrapped in foil placed in wardrobe...There they will be safely stored along with my 2 joysticks, Space Hulk board game and Death Angel card game waiting for 'proper' time :-P

I cannot see a point in selling them. Possible I will show those discs to my grandkids and will amaze them...

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Something like this.

I prefer to have some more room, so I gladly sell games I can get digital copy. I only keep those games that I loved, and I still love them (Infinity Engine games, Civilization, KOTOR, some more rpg), or those that I can't get digital copy yet.

BLASPHEMY. Seriously, i always keep my original discs. I never ever sell or throw them away. I wouldn't even consider such a thing, unless i'm starving and need money badly. My games are the physical things i love the most. I even keep original boxes and manuals.

When i buy games i tend to buy only those that are complete (box+manual and everything) because i love collecting this stuff. Due to the lack of time, i'm actually more a collector than a gamer nowadays.

I used to sell games and consoles when i was younger, but now i keep everything, even those games that i know i will never ever play anymore.

I keep my CDs even though I have digital copy. Sentimental value + great surprise from time to time: Quite recently I've found my Tzar CD and I thought I had lost it long time ago. It's working fine with Windows 7 so be careful Borgh, here I come!

I'll generally only buy a game digitally that I already have on disc if I have a real advantage from it, like being able to play it in English, compatibility fixes, 32-bit installer, etc.

I always burn my GOG games onto CD or DVD, unless it's too big for either, for which I'm still working on a solution. While I print out the DVD inlays for games I don't already have, games that I do simply go into a paper disc cover and get placed as an 'extra' in the original game box.

Unless you are really hurting for space, there's little reason to sell your originals.

(I'm still struggling to understand why some people are having serious problems with running NOLF under Win7 x64).

All sitting on my shelf! Especially my big cardboard boxed original version of Deus Ex... great times. :)

Good luck with that ;-) monolihic media giants that haven't moved to 20th century yet are several orders of magnitude more difficult to deal with that EA or Ubisoft. And that's probably understatement of the century right there. :-p

Amazon pushed for DRM free music but they seem to have been unsuccessful with movies and shows. It's a real shame since everything is DRM free on the pirate bay anyway. I never pirated movies or shows until I started volunteering in Georgia. No copyright law + no salary = piracy. The funny thing is, it's a ten times better EXPERIENCE than buying movies.

It's a real shame.

Still, launching with a remastered version of Metropolis as a freebie would be supremely awesome.

I don't throw them away, I'll just pack them away.

Sometimes the originals do become handy, especially as GOG versions of some DOS games apparently don't have the original sound card setup executables and shit. If you e.g. try to figure out how you should edit the sound card conf file; it always helps if you can check the right values from the original game. I may need that quite often when I try to change the settings of GOG games to support Roland MT-32.

And how about the GOG games that use ScummVM? I presume they are missing quite many of the original files, just in case you might want to play the game e.g. in DOSBox instead?

Not to mention the Steam versions of some LucasArts adventure games, which apparently have some mangled data files so that they would be unusable with ScummVM, IIRC?