Somewhat hypothetical situation:

Computer user wrote a games application in the mid-1990s stored on floppy disk (non-MFM format; actually, GCR, or Group Code Recording). User has tried virtually everything to recover the source code to this game, and even sent said floppy disk to data recovery lab for analysis.

Other than remarking to client that data recovery would cost "several thousand dollars" and "wasn’t, generally, worth the expense," said lab sent disk back to consumer.

Short of using a time machine to go back in time and recover the lost source code, what is consumer to do in order to restore the lost data (besides spending countless hours rewriting it, which isn’t a fun/desired option)? I’m assuming even places like NASA/NSA would give consumer blank and weird stares given the oldness of the storage medium, and perhaps wouldn’t be helpful in recovering the data at all.

Thanks,

Paul
Ok, this is embarrassing…TRS-80 level embarrassing. The game was written for the Commodore 128 (an old computer like the Commodore 64).

My old computer had a runshell.exe error and I ned a recovery disk but I had lost mine a long time ago…
It isnt my computer it is my friends old laptop. Mainly for programming since any of the other versions are so restricting.. Duh and dont post unless you have an answer. Or I will report you