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Nothing important has to fade away
Software, archives and digital lives recovered from failing media, dead formats and shuttered services: 41,206 titles, every one verified and free to access.
Try amiga, letters, every dataset or the first disk Lazarus recovered, LZ-00001.
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Preserved and verified
41,206
Titles restored
212
Partner archives
9,324
Records online
Recently restored
Browse the catalog →| Catalog no. | Title | Year | Platform | Restored | Fidelity |
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| LZ-41206 | Turbo Circuit 2Lumen Games | 1991 | ZX Spectrum | 2026-10-30 | Bit-exact |
| LZ-41205 | Records of the Sunvale Harbour Commission, 2004–2008Sunvale Harbour Commission | 2004–2008 | Windows 95, 98 and ME | 2026-10-29 | Bit-exact |
| LZ-41204 | Soil survey of the Bayside, 1996–2011Hollyvale Bay University, Department of Soil Science | 1996–2011 | Windows NT, 2000 and XP | 2026-10-28 | Complete |
| LZ-41203 | Records of the Cedarwater Bay Food Bank, 1999–2000Cedarwater Bay Food Bank | 1999–2000 | Windows 95, 98 and ME | 2026-10-28 | Partial |
| LZ-41202 | OrchidWordVeritysoft | 1996 | Amiga | 2026-10-27 | Bit-exact |
| LZ-41201 | Archipelago of the Lost MoonQuill Games | 1992 | Windows 3.x | 2026-10-27 | Reconstructed |
| LZ-41200 | Orchid CalcAnika Abernathy | 1998 | Classic Mac OS | 2026-10-26 | Bit-exact |
| LZ-41199 | Last Signal: Director’s CutJetty Games | 1991 | Amiga | 2026-10-26 | Bit-exact |
| LZ-41198 | Saleh Engineering: files, 1995–2003Saleh Engineering | 1995–2003 | Classic Mac OS | 2026-10-25 | Partial |
| LZ-41197 | Thunder PatrolArdentsoft | 1977 | Apple II | 2026-10-25 | Fragmentary |
Collections
All 15 collections →-
The Floppy Rescue
The disks the first Lazarus volunteers rescued between 1994 and 1999.
184 records online
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Games
Commercial, shareware and homemade games for every platform the archive can run.
3,045 records online
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Digital Lives
The email, photographs, messages and papers of individual people.
705 records online
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Scientific Data Rescue
Observations and measurements that cannot be taken again.
438 records online
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Machine Firmware
The software inside appliances, instruments, robots and companion animals.
335 records online
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Shuttered Services
Websites and online services captured before, or after, they closed.
516 records online
From the stacks
A few of the records archivists point visitors to first. Every one of them was, at some point, nearly lost.
How a title comes back
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Recover
Failing media are imaged at the lowest level the hardware allows, read several times and never written to.
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Verify
Every image is checksummed on arrival and re-verified on a rolling schedule, so that any change, however small, is caught.
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Describe
Archivists record what each title is, where it came from, what was lost and on what terms it can be shown.
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Keep it running
Software runs in emulation on the machine it was made for. Everything else is migrated to formats that will still open in fifty years.
Save your own
Practical guides from the Lazarus team: what to do with a box of old disks, how to keep family photographs readable and how to decide what is worth keeping at all.
After we are gone
What should happen to a person’s accounts, messages and data when they die? How Lazarus applies the principles of the Half-Life brief to the personal archives in its care.