- The first link in the text file bring an FTP site really took me back. I prefer FTP to gopher or Gemini. It’s amazing what can be done with file names and directory structure, though an 8 character limit make some interesting abbreviations and suffixes
- qingcharles 616 days agoIn the early days of the public Internet, 1993-1994, my job in the "warez" crew I joined was to spend my days grinding through public FTP sites finding folders that had accidentally been left write-enabled and then create hidden folders using escape characters, e.g. ^H^H^H^H that you could only open if you knew they were there. Then my buddies could store all their MEGABYTES of warez in them.
- Really nice website. Is there any like this that focus on applications as well as games? The source code seems to be a major bonus over other retro computing websites
- Here's an excellent source. A repository of FreeDOS-compatible freeware and OSS software. No abandonware: https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo
Interesting dev, too, he has his own other DOS-related stuff available as well, e.g. in qbasic. See his main github.io page.
EDIT: From the linked Github repo, another great resource. "Reviews, descriptions, links to 1000+ DOS programs. Freeware and free-for-private-use shareware listed ... since 1994": http://reimagery.com/fsfd
- There is "Interesting DOS programs" [1], discussed here [2] but there is no game.