Archives of old file listings?
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colin-b · 2017-11-28 18:27

I have fond memories from the early 1990s of my local BBS' file
section -- paging through the descriptions for hundreds of
shareware/freeware archives. Are these file listings archived anywhere
today? I'm thinking they must have been from some sort of Fidonet-like
feed. I'd love to be able to track down some games and graphics demos
that I remember from that time.

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colin-b · 2017-11-28 18:31

More info: the file listings I remember looked [like
this](http://archives.thebbs.org/ra52a.htm), although it appears that
thebbs.org has only archived BBS-related software rather than general
DOS games and utilities.

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NuSkooler · 2017-11-28 21:34

This might be of interest to you:
http://scenelist.hopto.org/collection.html

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mikeleemm · 2017-11-28 21:45

The description was created by the FILE_ID.DIZ file in the archive.
Many of these shareware files were on CDs which are on archive.org and
you can browse their contents.  Nightowl, The Pier etc were
collections of these files sysops could put on the file bases.

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Tor_Nanus · 2017-11-28 23:07

Try textfiles.com. Specifically:

https://textfiles.com/bbs/FILELISTS/

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iheartbaconsalt · 2018-04-28 22:20

Whoa, where can you do that?  OMG That would be fun.  I'm Googling.

EDIT:  Whoa,
[cool](https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive&tab=collection).

EDIT EDIT:  Do you need a license for this kind of stuff still?
https://archive.org/details/WILDCATGOLD