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What warez dump?

• peppermint_gum 2y ago
  I'm also interested in learning about it. I've only found this thread on Twitter: https://x.com/virtuallyfun/status/1804913568820699549 https://x.com/virtuallyfun/status/1804913568820699549 Apparently there are all kinds of goodies in that dump, like previously unknown betas of MS-DOS and OS/2, but there are no links to the dump itself. It's a shame that the community is so secretive about this :(
• ndiddy 2y ago
  Someone got access to the full tape backups for two warez BBSes (The WaREZ HouZE and Piper's Pit) and uploaded the tape images to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ibm-wgam-wbiz-collection https://archive.org/details/ibm-wgam-wbiz-collection. The collection spans the late 1980s to the late 1990s.
  • nxobject 2y ago
    A list of files (tab-separated) in each of the dumps is avilable in a separate download: https://archive.org/details/ibm-lists-details https://archive.org/details/ibm-lists-details These are _very large_, multi-MB zip files, indexing I think north of at least 100GB worth of files.
  • nxobject 2y ago
    PS – I don't think it's been posted yet to HN; you should do the honors...