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These are the current active projects on WoS. Each of them has a maintainer or two. You can get in touch with them if you wish to know more about the projects or contact Martijn who will put you through to the relevant person(s).
Note: material from any country, in any language is preserved, not just the UK.
 

  • The TZX Projects
    Maintained by Martijn van der Heide, Steve Brown, Andy Barker, Tony Barnett and Juan Pablo López-Grao.
    As far as projects go, the TZX project is probably the mother of them all. Its goal is no less than converting every single piece of software commercially written for the Speccy to a digital format. More precisely, it seeks to convert the software saved on ordinary tapes to the TZX format, which will allow anyone to download the games and run them in an emulator. The TZX format is designed to accurately reproduce data (albeit maybe a little cleaner) stored in tapes, so that the original data is preserved, which is why it's also known as the Spectrum Tape Preservation project (STP). The hardworking project team has managed to TZX thousands of tapes but there are thousands more that need to be done. Most of the pending ones are those programs for which the team simply doesn't have the original tapes! Some are programs that the team is aware of no copy at all has been found yet. Those are listed in the Missing In Action (MIA) section, and the team will be grateful if you could with either:
    a) Provide a TZX of the tape yourself.
    b) Provide the original tape to the TZX team, if you do not know how to TZX it. The team will return the tape to you after the TZX process.
    c) Sell the tape to the team at a mutually beneficial rate. Please note that WoS is NOT a profit making organisation. Everything is run for free by individuals who pay from out of their own pockets and as such any monetary relief is much appreciated.
     
  • The Spectrum Disk Preservation (SDP) Project
    Maintained by the TZX Project Team.
    Similar to the TZX Project, the Spectrum Disk Preservation (SDP) project aims to preserve +3 Spectrum disks in a digital format - the DSK format in this case.
    The team is the same as TZX Project so the aforementioned points apply to this project too.
     
  • The Spectrum Instructions Preservation Project
    Maintained by Philip Kendall.
    The purpose of this project is an important but often neglected one - that of collating and preserving the original instructions that came with a program. There are thousands of games for which instructions are simply not available even if the games themselves are! If you wish to help, simply head to the Instructions Project page and see if you can help out in providing the instructions for any of the games mentioned on the "Instructions Wanted" list.
     
  • The Spectrum Screenshots Preservation Project
    Maintained by Gerard Sweeney.
    This project aims to obtain loading and in-game screen images for all entries.
     
  • The Spectrum Inlay Preservation Project
    Maintained by Martijn van der Heide.
    This project aims to scan cassette and disk inlays for all titles in the archive.
     
  • The Spectrum Books Preservation Project
    Maintained by Martijn van der Heide.
    This project aims to scan all Spectrum-related books.
     
  • The Spectrum Magazines Preservation Project
    Maintained by Martijn van der Heide.
    This project aims to scan all Spectrum-related magazines (either exclusive or multi-format, any language).
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