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The Vintage Software Collection

The Vintage Software collection gathers various efforts by groups to classify, preserve, and provide historical software. These older programs, many of them running on defunct and rare hardware, are provided for purposes of study, education, and historical reference. 



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Adventure Game Studio Depository
Adventure Game Studio Depository
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2,119
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506,537
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Adventure Game Studio is an open source game-making tool for creating point-and-click graphic adventures in the tradition of Sierra and LucasArts titles like Space Quest and The Secret of Monkey Island. The first version was created by Chris Jones in the late 1990s, and as it was developed and expanded in the years that followed, a community grew that created hundreds of AGS games.
Arch Linux Historical Archive
Arch Linux Historical Archive
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19,194
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4.1M
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Arch Linux (or Arch /ɑːrtʃ/) is a Linux distribution for computers based on x86-64 architectures. This collection contains historical versions of all Arch Linux packages starting from September 2013.  It includes both x86_64 and i686 packages, up until November 2017 where support for i686 was dropped in Arch Linux. This complements the Arch Linux Archive which only keeps old packages for a few years.
Atari Computer Disk Images
Atari Computer Disk Images
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320
ITEMS
81,107
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Images of Atari Computer (8-bit, 16-bit) floppy disks, done with flux-reading hardware and other similar methods. These will often require additional conversion/efforts to play in emulators or on systems.
BSD Distributions
BSD Distributions
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17
ITEMS
13,333
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This collection contains iso file images of the numerous open source BSD variants currently out there. This is an ongoing project and the current status is: adding FreeBSD isos.
BitHistory.Org Software Collection
BitHistory.Org Software Collection
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1,263
ITEMS
411,300
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Software from the Bithistory.org collection.
CD-ROM Images
CD-ROM Images
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37,202
ITEMS
35.9M
VIEWS
by Various
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These are images of CD-ROM software that do not have any other major documentation or scans. While they may have useful information, some effort will be required to extract the data.
CD-ROM Software Collection
CD-ROM Software Collection
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77,544
ITEMS
96.8M
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One of the most historically important artifacts to come from the home computer telecommunications revolution was shareware CDs, compact discs put out by companies containing hundreds of megabytes of shareware. Initially containing less than the full capacity of the discs (600mb, later 700mb) these items eventually began brimming with any sort of computer data that could be packaged and sold. As material "ran out", that is, as sellers of these CDs found they were unable to easily find...
DEMU Collection
DEMU Collection
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19,103
ITEMS
551,654
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The DEMU collection consists of files from shareware CD-ROMs in the 90's.  The files are quickly scanned and uploaded through a (mostly) automated process.  Information for the items are generated from either a file_id.diz file (if one exists in the archive) or from a files.bbs listing. If you have meta data on a title you would like to submit or would like a specific item enabled for online play please email me at swizzle@demu.org .
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With the introduction of offline storage (in the form of tape and punch cards, later floppy disks, hard drives and cards), computer users began to create and acquire all manner of data to use with their machines. Programs, textfiles, and later images, sound and moving image data would be collected in the course of computer ownership and maintenance. Over time, this collection would sometimes resemble a pile, or a library, or an archive. The unifying theme would only be that they were all on the...
Driver Software Archives
Driver Software Archives
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2,157
ITEMS
442,029
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Collections of software and libraries dedicated to the operation and maintenance of operating systems and hardware. See also the Driver CD-ROM collection .
Floppy Disks of Software
Floppy Disks of Software
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2,182
ITEMS
1M
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This is a collection of various software programs that came on floppy disk media; while there are likely to be collections elsewhere at the archive, contributions often come in disparate piles of floppies and this collection holds them until being sorted more definitively.
KSP CKAN Mods
KSP CKAN Mods
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23,808
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2.2M
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The CKAN is a metadata repository and associated tools to allow you to find, install, and manage mods for Kerbal Space Program. It provides strong assurances that mods are installed in the way prescribed by their metadata files, for the correct version of Kerbal Space Program, alongside their dependencies, and without any conflicting mods.
Topics: ksp, kerbal space program, mod, ksp ckan
Microsoft DirectX SDKs
Microsoft DirectX SDKs
collection
65
ITEMS
155,073
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A collection of the official DirectX SDKs and additional components released by Microsoft. If you have any official release which is not included, please a write a mail to "[uploadername]@web.de" and I will add it here.
Topics: directx sdk, directx, sdk
NZB (Newzbin) File Archive
NZB (Newzbin) File Archive
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16
ITEMS
5,120
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NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from NNTP (Usenet) servers. The format was conceived by the developers of the Newzbin.com Usenet Index. NZB is effective when used with search-capable websites. These websites create NZB files out of what is needed to be downloaded. Using this concept, headers would not be downloaded hence the NZB method is quicker and more bandwidth-efficient than traditional methods. Each Usenet message has a unique identifier called the...
OpenAMQ Message Queue Software History
OpenAMQ Message Queue Software History
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120
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5,394
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OpenAMQ is an implementation of the original AMQP protocol, developed by iMatix Corporation It was the reference implementation for the original (pre-1.0) AMQ Protocol (the AMQP 1.0 protocol diverged considerably from this original design). iMatix Corporation developed OpenAMQ from 2004 to 2009. The development history can be found on the iMatix GitHub page . This collection contains the original OpenAMQ source release archives, as they were originally released
Topics: software, source, message_queue, opensource, gpl, imatix, openamq, amqp
Spanish Homebrew Archive
Spanish Homebrew Archive
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189
ITEMS
82,183
VIEWS
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New creations for classic systems / Nuevas creaciones para sistemas clásicos
Topic: Spanish Homebrew Archive
The FTP Site Boneyard
The FTP Site Boneyard
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921
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222,249
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This collection contains .tar or .zip files of the collections of these sites, which are then browsable using the Internet Archive's archive view functionality. Created in 1971 (and refined in 1985), the File Transfer Protocol allowed Internet or network-connected computers to transfer binary and ASCII files between each other. To facilitate transferring of files in a pre-WWW era, FTP sites allowing anonymous or open-access connections became available worldwide. As they were often connected to...
The Flash Archive
The Flash Archive
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3,418
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1.8M
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This collection consists of items that utilize, reference, or are Shockwave Flash, the now-defunct animation, graphics and sound system that was a dominant form of multimedia on the web for nearly a decade and a half. 
The Garry's Mod Archive
The Garry's Mod Archive
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26,494
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144,685
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Built on a modified version of Valve's Source engine, Garry's Mod (or GMod for short) is a physics sandbox game. One of the great strengths of Garry's Mod is that it is incredibly modder-friendly. This has lead to a thriving community that is always coming up with new addons and gamemodes for everyone to enjoy.
The Homebrew Cloud
The Homebrew Cloud
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125
ITEMS
31,658
VIEWS
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This is the official Homebrew.cloud Collection.
The Lichess Archive
The Lichess Archive
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504
ITEMS
8,647
VIEWS
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Archive of games played on Lichess, the free online chess server. For more information, see database.lichess.org .
Topics: chess, pgn, lichess
The Minecraft Deep Storage
The Minecraft Deep Storage
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1,149
ITEMS
1.1M
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A collection of programs, mods, writings, worlds, and materials related to the world-building game Minecraft.
The Ouya Library
The Ouya Library
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1,733
ITEMS
862,911
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by Various
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A collection of software packages originally created for the now-defunct OUYA console.
The evolt.org Browser Archive
The evolt.org Browser Archive
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132
ITEMS
139,511
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The evolt.org browser archive hosts historical copies of web browsers stretching back to the early days of the Internet. In addition to the most well-known browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape, it has several dozen other browsers which have seen use over the years. These can be invaluable aides in testing the compatibility and accessibility of a web site. For more information, please visit the evolt.org web site .
Tomb Raider fan levels hosted on treditor.hu
Tomb Raider fan levels hosted on treditor.hu
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3,814
ITEMS
2,288
VIEWS
by OBig
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The majority of files have been uploaded as is, with some notable exceptions being the Hypersquare games by Psiko due to technical issues - instructions on how to set up those games are on their individual item pages. All files have been uploaded here with the permission of OBig, the webmaster of TREditor. 
Unsorted Vintage Software
Unsorted Vintage Software
collection
91
ITEMS
35,769
VIEWS
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A large collection of vintage software, unsorted and awaiting a final destination.
Vintage Apple Macintosh Shareware Games
Vintage Apple Macintosh Shareware Games
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27
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40,837
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Collection of Apple Macintosh shareware games, sourced from a large collection of (UK edition) Apple Mac magazine cover CDs, spanning mid-1990s through to early-2000s. Compiled, sorted and uploaded by vintageapplemac.com.
ZeroMQ Message Queue Software History
ZeroMQ Message Queue Software History
collection
76
ITEMS
294,988
VIEWS
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ZeroMQ , also known as 0MQ, is a distributed messaging platform. It was originally developed by FastMQ (founded by Martin Sustrik and Pieter Hintjens) between 2007 and 2009, and then acquired by iMatix Corporation in November 2009. Since 2009 it has been developed by the ZeroMQ Project using the C4 development process . This collection contains the history of the early ZeroMQ releases.
Topics: software, source, message_queue, opensource, imatix, fastmq, zeromq