Software Preservation Society

Software Preservation Society

The Software Preservation Society (SPS), formerly known as the Classic Amiga Preservation Society (CAPS), is a group that is concentrating on finding old software disks (mostly games) and taking a snapshot of the disks in a format that can be preserved for the future. The images are not made publicly available out of respect for active copyright holders.

References

* [http://www.softpres.org/ Software Preservation Society homepage]


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