The last few releases are linked here, with additional sets kept on record indefinitely. The TOSEC development team releases information on their software classifications in the form of data (DAT) files on a regular basis. 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. Super Famicom and Super Entertainment System The following systems are in the process of being described/prettified, but can be accessed currently. This mirror of TOSEC material is being maintained by Jason Scott.

To understand the conventions of the TOSEC filenames, please read the TOSEC Naming Standards Document. The TOSEC database contains detailed information on images of hundreds of thousands of ROMs, EEPROMs, optical discs, magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, document scans, and other sundry media and individual files. Using this data, TOSEC can provide quality assurance and auditing tools for cataloging and validating software images (such as ROM chip images, CD images and floppy disk images etc.) and computing resources (such as manuals and magazines). In addition to this, the project also catalogs other computing and gaming resources such as software and hardware manuals, magazine scans and computing catalogs. The goal of the TOSEC project is to maintain a database of all software and firmware images for all microcomputers, minicomputers and video game consoles.

While the original founder of TOSEC has since ceased to have an involvement in the initiative, a dedicated team of volunteers continue to expand and contribute to the project. The initiative was founded on 18 January 2000, with the first official TOSEC website going live 18 August 2000, by a Dutch retrocomputing enthusiast using the pseudonym 'Grendel'. As of this time the project had identified and cataloged 466,396 different software images/sets, consisting of over 3.60TB of software, firmware and resources. The main goal of the project is to catalog and audit various kinds of software and firmware images for these systems.Īs of release, TOSEC catalogs over 200 unique computing platforms and continues to grow.

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.

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