Aaru Data Preservation Suite

🎁 The Three Wise Men brought us a gift: a new Aaru alpha! Now with full flux image support (A2R, HxC, SCP) thanks to Rebecca’s amazing work. Plus DVD PFI fixes, translations, new icon, desktop file, and Debian/RPM packages. Still alpha—handle with care. Happy New Year!

Alpha 16 out! 🎁 Negative & overflow sectors preserved, image merging, in‑place metadata editing, GUI polish, paranoia dumping, faster verification, long‑sector compare, improved dual‑layer DVD handling. Happy holidays — big feature coming 2026! #Preservation #DigitalPreservation

🚀 Big news: the Aaru GUI is complete! 🔌 Connect devices locally or via AaruRemote 📊 Get instant media insights,block maps & speed graphs 💾 Dump media directly from the GUI—logs included! ⚠️ Still in alpha, so expect bugs… but enjoy the ride! 🎉 #opensource #datapreservation

🚀 AaruFormat V2 is here! Redesigned for huge disk images, modular, and now open via libaaruformat. Integrated in Aaru 6.0.0-alpha.13 — test it, break it, help us improve it! 🛠️ Download now: github.com/aaru-dps/aaru/… #DigitalPreservation #OpenSource

🎉 1.0.0-alpha.1 is here! 🚀 Comprehensive bug fixes, validated core features & a sleek CLI. ⏳ Snapshots & resume support coming soon. Next: full Aaru integration! 🔥 Download on GitHub, test it, & share feedback to shape our stable 1.0.0! #opensource #digitalpreservation

This is a milestone, after all this time, we now have a complete AaruFormat V2 image, with header v2, index v3, and ddt v2 all in the file.

@lauriewired Many Japanese stamped classical music CDs use several indexes in a single track to mark different parts of the composition

There's a hidden spec in physical CDs that most won't notice. - Many audio players won't rip it. - It gets skipped over when selecting a specific track - It only gets read when playing continuously from beginning to end What is it? Audio pregap data! Many live CDs creatively used this optional data sector to add in live audience/crowd noise between tracks. Listening to the album all the way through would have the crowd noise between songs, whereas jumping around different tracks would skip this optional section, as it's placed before the track index. Isn't that neat? I wonder what interesting data you could hide in that optional area.

90% of optical discs that we preserve that have read errors at first try, read perfectly after a simple clean up. Fingerprints are the worst. Unfortunately the other 10% we're still working on it...

Microsoft just open-sourced DOS 4 hanselman.com/blog/open-sour… (as well a release of beta binaries, disk images, and PDFs from @rozzie's archives!) (but who did the PR?!)

Bueno solo tomó dos horas implementar el sistema de ficheros de Commodore en @aaru_dps 😴😴😴 pero ya los unit tests mañana q'es tarde #C64 #CBMFS #Commodore #Commodore64 #Commodore128 #C128

Digital archaeology reading 40 year old C64 Floppy Disks with a Greaseweazle, Fluxengine, and Aaru youtu.be/Jhgov6bh_pU?si…

We have just preserved this bundle. Raise your hand if you know where is it from!

It's been a long day, but our first supported archive format is full in. Symbian Installation Files for EPOC Release 3 to 5 (and Release 6 if uncompressed and without scripts) are totally supported. Tested 1117 files without errors.

More games preserved!!!

All of them have been successfully read without errors using Aaru. Sometimes a disc just needs some soapy love 🧼

These discs were completely unreadable, NO MEDIUM FOUND. Can we save them???

From our team, we send condolences to the family or Arsen "Ray" Arachelian, we would not be where we are without him. parkfuneralchapels.com/tribute/detail…

@7ank0v1c Nope, it's a GD-ROM

@aaru_dps Or a Vinal record 😂

What would this be? 🤔

@7ank0v1c Not yet but it shouldn't affect the majority of ngage games, only very early ones, we know people have dumped many retail and beta games with latest release. Please contact us in Discord to obtain further details.

@aaru_dps Did this ever get solved? I am having problems even accessing the majority of Ngage game mmc? Only three work just by plugging them in?

We’ve found that early ngage cards are getting dump errors. It seems to be a driver bug (Windows) or a kernel bug (Linux) due to an early revision of the MMC standard. We’re investigating possible workarounds