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MidiIllustrator
Notate, print, practice and play free MIDI sheet music. This program brings your favorite songs and musical works to life, generating dynamic scores, fake books and lead sheets from thousands of MIDI and karaoke files freely available on the World Wide Web. See the notes and lyrics light up as they are played back; the pages turn automatically. Display difficult pieces in simplified form with a single click. Instantly convert MIDI files to solo piano arrangements.

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Welcome to Software Archive34,318 items
The Software Archive is designed to preserve and provide access to all kinds of rare or difficult to find, legally downloadable software titles and background information on those titles.
The collection includes a broad range of software related materials including shareware, freeware, video news releases about software titles, speed runs of actual software game play, previews and promos for software games, high-score and skill replays of various game genres, and the art of filmmaking with real-time computer game engines.
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Speed Runs
Speedrunning, trying to complete a videogame in the fastest time possible, is almost as old as gaming itself. At least, it's almost as old as games that have a definite end point or staging points, since speedrunning a game with infinitely repeating levels is Sisyphean. This collection hosts...
Software/Game EPKs
This is a collection of Video News Releases sent out by various software companies to television media as a way to promote their products. They represent an interesting insight into the introduction of games and other software products over the past ten years. They are being archived here as one...
Videogame Replays
These freely distributable replay and demo movies are from a number of different sources, including popular 2D shoot em up (or 'shmup') console and PC videogames, showing incredible skills, amazing chains, and spectacular flying prowess. Please see the Game Movies Collection for a faster,...
Machinima
Dedicated to the academic investigation and historical preservation of machinima, filmmaking within real-time, 3D virtual environments, often appropriated from existing video game engines. Please see the Game Movies Collection for a faster, browsable version of this collection until it exits its...
Tucows Software Library
The Tucows Sofware Library is the largest freeware/shareware library on the Internet. It provides users with over 40,000 software titles that have been "tested, rated and reviewed" by Tucows inc. This archive includes the latest versions of Tucows software, as well as older versions not available...
CLASP
The Classic Software Preservation Project, or CLASP Project for short, was founded by the non-profit Internet Archive in January 2004 to help permanently archive classic, obsolete retail software from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. There are tens of thousands of videogames, utilities, and...




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