Commodore 64 (C64) Preservation Project
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Titles archived: 2347
Titles verified: 368
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These pages represent a project that I have thought about and started at different times for years, but never previously had the inclination to fully organize. I am a Network Engineer from Augusta, Georgia, USA that grew up in the 8-bit computing era during the reign of the Commodore 64.

My original goal was probably that of a lot of retro users. I wanted to recollect all the games I had for the C64 when I was a kid, which for most part were games that I either copied (or later cracked) from friends in the Northeastern Ohio area. It always bothered me when I got a copy of a game where the text was edited with silly "BROKEN BY" phrases, so I would always remove them and put in the original text. Later, we were inundated with the "intro demo" which usually saw the loss of the title screens and original loading graphics. I sought to remove those as well.

After discovering the MNIB project, I decided it was better to just try to collect all the games as they were originally distributed. That way you avoid any errors or missed protection checks that the 'cracker' left behind. This opened up into the can of worms you see on the site today. :)

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This project is all done in my spare time, if you like it, please consider donating any small amount you see fit using the link below.
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Posted By Pete Rittwage (on 05/05/2008 @ 11:17)
Subject: More Donations
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 y...
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Posted By Pete Rittwage (on 04/15/2008 @ 22:10)
Subject: Donations
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 J...
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Posted By Pete Rittwage (on 03/16/2008 @ 15:17)
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Posted By Pete Rittwage (on 02/10/2008 @ 21:11)
Subject: Thanks!
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 ge...
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Posted By Pete Rittwage (on 01/02/2008 @ 23:32)
Subject: Site updates
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 q...
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