Scans

Demu is a vintage media website which I have been working on since 1998. Preserved digital files are now accessed through The Internet Archive.

Currently, most of my time is spent on scanning printed material. These texts are mostly available through my archive.org account of @swizzley_scans. When appropriate, they may also be added to Retromags. I am also scanning items for others which are going into a special collection at @TwinCityArchivist.

Items scanned may include items such as vintage books, magazines, epherma, and computer or video game manuals.

If you have materials you would like to see added to The Internet Archive but don’t have the capability to do so yourself feel free to reach out to me. I may be able to offer scanning, dumping of floppy disks or CD/DVD discs (Greaseweazle, Plextor), and other archival services. Feel free to reach out to me at swizzle@demu.org to discuss your specific needs.

Want List

Eventually I would like to help complete sets of magazines on archive.org. Ones I am currently looking for include:

If you have copies you would like to donate reach out to me at the e-mail address listed above.

Vintage Software

For many years I focused on providing vintage computer (DOS and Windows) games. Primarily demos, freeware, shareware, and other files people uploaded to bulletin boards or the world wide web. These files, along with all of their meta data are primarily available through the Classic PC Games collection on archive.org. As much as possible, files have online play enabled so they can be run in your browser.

Prior to DiscMaster, I had started a second collection, The DEMU Collection. This contains approximately 19,000 computer applications and other antique digital files which were added in bulk pulling data from file_id.diz files. This collection may be refined in the future with better metadata but it’s not an active project.