The goal of the Lost Classics Project is to legitimately bring back to the Apple II community those commercial or freeware software titles that have become unavailable to the general public.

This is done by contacting the copyright holders of this software and convincing them to reclassify their product as freeware, so the programs in question may be legally uploaded to various FTP sites such as A2Central.com and the Trenco Apple II Archive.

The Lost Classics Project is made up of volunteers, all of whom are long-time Apple II enthusiasts and who go to the time and trouble of tracking down the copyright holders for software. While some individuals occasionally suggest a title or two, the three people who’ve done the most work in getting software reclassified are Howard Katz, who heads up the Project, Gareth Jones, and Mitchell Spector.