Cloanto has been developing innovative software solutions since its incorporation in 1987.

Having been affected by the demise of several popular computing platforms, in 1997 it was among the first to publish an all-encompassing emulation suite that addressed both the technical and the legal challenges that came with the growing need of software and data preservation. Since then, its RetroPlatform technology has allowed hundreds of thousands of users to run tens of thousands of legacy applications from the 1980s, 1990s and beyond, covering areas such as productivity, gaming, and the electronic arts.

As a team, Cloanto have acquired decades of experience in fields such as virtualization and emulation, reverse engineering, copy protection mechanisms and data rot, as well as in the legal aspects of preservation and emulation.