Another thing to note is that some of these folders have *.LOG files which likely include descriptions direct from the BBS for the file names. In a few cases it might be a file like ALLFILES.ZIP which contains the file descriptions (for example, \SOUR\ALLFILES.ZIP) but as with anything old and …

How about some monochromatic railroading with PC-RR (RRGAMES.ZIP)? Filename pc-rr_000.png File size 3.9 KiB Views 2967 views As advertised in the 1984 Infoworld magazine: Filename pc-rr.gif File size 50.45 KiB Views 2967 views

Heck the archive.org link is in the first post. :p Originally it pointed to a dropbox, but was later edited to the archive.org link we see now. Yes, DropBox suspended my share the next morning for hogging bandwidth, which is ironic given the nature of the share and the speeds at which people used …

So is there some legal reason why modern archivers don't support .ARC? WinRAR and 7-ZIP don't recognize it. I think it has more to do with AGE. ;) This one worked for me before and worked on Windows 7: http://www.filzip.com/ Update: Also wanted to mention that back in the old days there were …

While Googling one of the obscure titles in this collection, I hit upon "RBBS in a Box" which contains many old school BBS files from this era, just like this archive. Check it out at https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive and search for RBBS in a box

Happy to share...I spooked myself recently thinking I had erased all these files after upgrading my PC, but found them safely stored on an old hard drive I had brought to my work. If anyone finds anything cool or unusual, it would make me smile if you posted screenshots here since I'll never have …

A couple of years ago I bought about 3,000 floppy disks from a guy in Los Angeles who once ran a PC shareware company. Many of the disks contained shareware downloads from various BBSes in that area, mostly from the late 80s to about 1994. Knowing their historical value, I copied the files off …