The main goal of this project is to archive pristine versions of original Commodore 64 software, including copy protection. A secondary goal and benefit of this will be to catalog and document all the different copy protection methods used. This information will be used to improve emulation, as well as allow remastering of the software onto new disks for you to enjoy on the real thing. These goals are much like that of C.A.P.S. project for the Amiga, which is now renamed Software Preservation Society or 'SPS'..

Of course, to reach these goals, we need your help. This software exists only on magnetic media from the 1980's, and as such has been disappearing into attics, yard sales, and landfills for 20-25 years. Floppy disks were also never made to last a lifetime, as I have found in purchasing them in auctions. Even disks that were stored and cared for by their owners all these years have pretty high failure rates, including some where the magnetic material actually wipes right off, making the drive heads filthy.

You can help preserve them for our own and future generations in a number of ways.

* If you have a 1541 or 1571 disk drive and a XEP, XAP, or XMP cable (serial/parallel combination), we can send you the latest mastering software. You can then send us the resulting image and statistical data for analysis and inclusion in the archive.

* We will happily pay for postage to get any original disks you have to us! We will promptly image them and send them back to you.

* If you don't have the cabling or don't wish to send us your originals, you can make us nibbled copies of the originals by whatever the best means you have and send us those. We will pay for postage, as well as return these disks to you, of course. We can sometimes reconstruct the protection onto the image by looking at what it checks for, plus they can be used to verify the original image if nothing else.

* Join the discussion forums and ask any questions or make any comments you like about the project or copy protection in general.

Thanks to Matt Larsen for sending in a box of disks, some of which aren't even in Gamebase yet! :) Also, Thanks Christian Lott and Tom Bies for sending in your collections for imaging.
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Thanks very much to Gabriel Borchsenius and Joe Ricci, who recently sent in their disk collections for archiving. Thanks guys! Also thanks to Kenneth Kill Jr. for sending a monetary donation for site upkeep and good will. Thanks Ken!
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Just sending out thanks to Dave M. who loaned me his disk collection for imaging. Dave had a couple hundred disks at least, which took me a couple months to get all the way through. Now they just need cataloged and compared. :) Thanks again. - Pete Rittwage C64 Preservation Project [link]
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I did some big site updates that include a rolling up of many changes from Chris to the CMS and BBS. Also, I created a new DB stat panel and a new database query system.
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Thanks very much to Banguibob, Visualmess, and Daryl K for manually patching up some of the Rapidlok images based on Banguibob's RL guide. We have a few running that wouldn't before with the old Maverick/UU patches.
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The default behavior of the database page to show the whole database was getting out of hand, so now database page has been updated and searchable.
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I put the latest development snapshot of NIBTOOLS in the files area. [link]
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Banguibob has a nice new page about the RAPIDLOK protection with regard to Pirates! [link]
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Thanks to all who have been sending in disks and images over the last months. I will try to get through them all by the end of the year. :)
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Gamebase64 V5 is now officially released!
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Daryl sent me in a fully patched image of Defender of the Crown that appears to work 100%. Thanks very much for fixing this long-standing title, Daryl. The patch fixes the initial loader and the protection check on the second side.
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Just sending out a big thanks to Jerry and DC for sending me tons of new images in the last month or so. I have many weeks worth of work to get through them all! Don't stop sending them because I'm backed up, though.
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Thanks to Nate Lawson who conducted an e-mail interview with Jim Drew of Microcode Solutions. Jim was a famous figure for both hardware and software in both the C64 and Amiga days.
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I bid on this and lost, but I was not sure what it is. Anybody recognize what this board could be? [link]
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