RETRARIUM

The archive. Everything that ran on the machines, and everything known about it.

Retrarium keeps the software of the home computer era together with its history: every title with its releases, publishers and authors, the files that hold it, its loading screens, inlays, scans and documents. It is the library that Rasterium opens, and it stands on its own as a reference. The first shelf is the ZX Spectrum, imported from ZXDB; the other machines follow.

ON THE SHELVES

GAMES        ████████████████████████████████████████ 17 970
OTHER        ██████████▍                               4 649
UTILITIES    ███████▋                                  3 455
DEMOS        ███▍                                      1 524
EDUCATIONAL  ██▊                                       1 274
+13 MORE     ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ LOADING...

ZX Spectrum titles in the first import, by type.

WHAT A RECORD HOLDS

• Title, aliases and the machines it ran on
• Releases: year, publisher, price, format
• Credits: who wrote, drew and composed it
• Files: tapes, disks and cartridges, with their hashes
• Pictures: loading screens, in-game, inlays
• Documents: manuals, adverts, magazine pages
• Companies and people, linked across machines
• Genres, series and the stories between them

OPENING THE DOORS

Planned: Retrarium as a service. A read-only web API over the same archive, and an MCP server so that an AI assistant can look things up in it, never write.

> GET /api/titles?machine=zx-spectrum&year=1984&type=educational

{
  "count": 0,
  "titles": [],
  "note": "PLANNED. NOT YET IMPLEMENTED."
}