
The project has identified and cataloged over 450,000 different software images/sets, consisting of over 3.60TB of software, firmware and resources. TOSEC catalogs over 200 unique computing platforms and continues to grow.

The main goal of the project is to catalog and audit various kinds of software and firmware images for these systems. The Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) is a retrocomputing initiative dedicated to the cataloging and preservation of software, firmware and resources for microcomputers, minicomputers and video game consoles. The collection includes a broad range of software related materials including shareware, freeware, video news releases about software titles, speed runs of actual software game play, previews and promos for software games, high-score and skill replays of various game genres, and the art of filmmaking with real-time computer game engines.


There is a special case that, the operating system is a 64-bit system, but you are not sure whether the program is 32-bit or 64-bit. If your operating system is 32-bit, you must download 32-bit files, because 64-bit programs are unable to run in the 32-bit operating system. (Method: Click your original file, and then click on the right key to select "Properties" from the pop-up menu, you can see the version number of the files)

If your original file is just corrupted but not lost, then please check the version number of your files. If you know MD5 value of the required files, it is the best approach to make choice Tip: How to correctly select the file you need
