🌌 About Me
Want to help preserve every video game and bit of digital data… ever?

I’m Natalia Portillo, creator of the Aaru Data Preservation Suite, and your support makes it possible for me to work full-time on this flagship open source project — building the tools we need to safeguard our digital heritage.

🛠 What is Aaru?
Aaru is a powerful preservation toolkit designed to extract, analyze, and archive data from nearly every physical format imaginable:

CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs

Floppy disks, hard drives, magnetic tapes

And many more — if it stores data, Aaru can help preserve it.

Whether you prefer the command line or a graphical interface, Aaru offers both — intuitive, flexible, and always improving.

💡 Why Support This?
Because digital history matters. From forgotten prototypes to beloved classics, our computing and gaming legacy is at risk. Aaru empowers archivists, historians, and enthusiasts to rescue and preserve that legacy — and it will always be open source and free.

🏛 Trusted by Experts
Computer History Museum (Palo Alto) Aaru is part of their daily archival workflow. I also collaborated with them to reverse-engineer and preserve the Apple Lisa operating system.

Read more on Ars Technica

Video Game History Foundation Aaru helped back up over 7,000 rare CDs, DVDs, and data tapes from Game Informer’s archives.

See the story