The goal of this project is to educate the reader about floppy drives, floppy disks, recording methods, as well as the history and methods of copy protection used on magnetic media. This information is used to help you recover data and improve emulation of these old devices and software, as well as help allow 'remastering' of the software back onto disks, so you can enjoy them as they were originally intended, on the real hardware.
Of course, to reach these goals, we need your help. This software exists only on magnetic media from the 1970's to the 1990's, and as such has been disappearing into attics, yard sales, and landfills for decades. Floppy disks were never made to last a lifetime, as many of us have found when trying to archive them. Even disks that were stored and cared for by their owners all these years can have pretty high failure rates.
You can help preserve them for our own and future generations in a number of ways, so please use the contact form for details or ask in the forums.
C64 Serial Registry