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SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by zozbot234 »

It's quite interesting to see just how much of that historically proprietary and copywritten software from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s is thoroughly outcompeted today by FLOSS solutions that are simply available to anyone at no cost whatsoever. A very high fraction of the proprietary "utility" programs of old (with a huge amount of wasteful duplicated effort involved in their creation) are even made completely redundant by OS-level features in free operating systems. We live in the best era for "warez" of sorts, and it's all completely legal!

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by amatecha »

bombcar wrote: post #46
amatecha wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, I sought out 96kbps mp3s because I could listen to those and still use my computer without too much lag. 128kbps was enough to really bog things down lol >_<

My first foray into Linux was because it could burn a CD without errors (when reniced) while doing other things; the same computer under Windows had to be absolutely left alone when burning or it would make a coaster. Kids these days with their multitasking and interfaces!

Oh wow I totally forgot about that -- leaving the computer alone while burning a CD because even the slightest action might render your burned CD a coaster! Actually, that period lasted quite a while, as I remember quitting programs to reduce issues when burning even in WinXP... lol

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by scize »

nxobject wrote: post #21

From an archival perspective... it's sad to be able to search the filelists for software that's probably lost to history. For example, I've been trying to track down a (working) copy of SAS for DOS since forever. Even software from fly-by-night houses can tell us so much.

send me an email (address is listed on scenelist.org) and i can probably help you with that :)
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