Hello, I'm looking for old collections of disks with files from pirate BBS that were active in 1988 or some archive with disks. Does anyone have this?
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I know of no such archive, and I've been searching for years.
There is the venerable textfiles.com website that contains many of the wild and whacky (text) files that have been compiled from BBS sources, but as far as actual game or program files you'll never find anything like that.
For the simple reason that even BBS systems themselves rotated their file availability due to disk space constraints, concentrating only ion what was hot and new at the time.Nobody was going to download a 5 year old pirate copy of Wavy Navy off a BBS when they could have a hot new pirate copy of Summer Games. And since you had to trade software to get software, an old download was often a waste of a doalowad ratio score.
That said, there are a few uploaded GBBS archive disks on archive.org, but not much other than the files and setup disks of a couple of GBBS boards from back then, and nothing from any Warp6 boards.
Your only hope is that there is an old SYSOP hanging around here that still ahs all his old stuff in a disk collection somewhere.
I'm one of those people and even I don't have anything useful from when I ran a board and AE Line back in the 80s.
Let us know if you find anything.
I'll be searching now but thanks for the answer :). If I find something I'll write to you... If I find something
There are many such collections archived on Textfiles.com, Asimov.com, Archive.com and probably elsewhere.
There's lots of collecitons of games and such on all of those places - and I've enjoyed greatly yhe 4AM "clean crack" collections of games that have been restored to original status minus the crack screens of the old days. But I don't think that's what the original poster was after.
Like I said - even all my old AELine disks have been lost to time, and while I still have most of the cracked game disks I collected over the years back then they're not in any sort of gathered collection for download or software archaeology.
I'm just looking for one program that was distributed on some old pirate BBS. It's incredibly rare and finding it would be a small contribution to history for me and I can only say that I have this one sheet that lists the different BBSs and that I need to check and find each one... Historical List of BBSes in the 718 Area Code --------------------------------------------- Created by TEXTFILES.COM From Many Sources
Could I suggest sharing the name of that program? Maybe someone has it but doesn't know it originated on the BBS scene ...
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