Do you have any old computers you played RuneScape on using Microsoft Java? You might have ALL of the game's lost old versions! ($500 bounty)

Hi everyone,

I'm sure by now most people have seen our posts about the RuneScape Archive Project. There's more detail here, but in a nutshell we're trying to recover the lost versions of RuneScape that would be stored on any old computers or drives that people played on. This leads to many cool discoveries such as graphical updates, unused content, inaccessible areas, etc.

Previously, we thought that only the most recent version played would be saved. However we recently discovered however that if you selected the Microsoft Java plugin on the famous detail select screen, every single version you ever played would be stored in hidden locations on your computer! We have updated the custom search tool to include these new files.

For anyone coming to Runefest, we will have a booth in the community zone all day on Sunday showing off various things about older RuneScape, including some of the discoveries we've made. We'll also have an old hard drive reader, so if you have any inaccessible drives feel free to bring them along.

As before we are offering the prize of $500 to anyone who can find a complete missing version from 2001-2004.

Thanks in advance, and we hope to see some of you at our stall next week.