Keatah Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 "Recovering" vintage software. What resources do you use? Building vintage PCs are in vogue these days. Perhaps moreso now than ever. Vintage PC. Vintage software. And that means period software. Software from the 80's and 90's. What are some of the resources you use to either learn about a certain package or bit of freeware or shareware? Recently I got to gathering "updates" for some vintage astronomy stuff. Things like Dance of the Planets, SkyGlobe, Electric Astrolabe, smaller single-purpose utilities and loads of astrology stuff. I found TheWaybackMachine great for visiting the websites of these things that have been long gone. Then there's the Mamont and Napalm FTP search engines. Of course there's tons shareware/freeware CD-ROMS and compilations on The Internet Archive. There's VetusWare, but it's kinda stupid with the download limitations. I also use OldVersion, OldApps, and WinWorld. But what are some sites that are good for one-off unique DOS titles? Things made BEFORE the internet became popular. Things when BBS'es were still the rage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 SimTel archive mirrors are still up... https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/ and vogons has a rather nice selection of old DOS drivers... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted May 20, 2020 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 Oh yeh SIMTEL. Forgot about that one. Found a few vintage astronomy programs (my thing for the month) that I didn't have BITD, but I want MOAR! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) On 5/19/2020 at 12:59 PM, Keatah said: ... smaller single-purpose utilities ... Anything by Robert Miller? He's a friend of mine and long ago he gave me some utilities he wrote, like sunrise/set calculator and world map projections. I don't know how widely distributed they were. Edited May 25, 2020 by ClausB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 Anything astronomy related would be nice to get. It's my current fix right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 4 hours ago, Keatah said: Anything astronomy related would be nice to get. It's my current fix right now. Distant Suns is frequently run on my Amiga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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