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SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
- achairapart 9mo agoThe NFO Search section is pure gold. I'm glad someone preserved all this.
- vizzah 9mo agoyeah.. nice to look up yourself on many of those filez =)
- no_time 9mo agoI hope one day someone will make a movie about the warez scene. The only piece of media we have as far as I'm aware is The Scene (2004–2006) which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone with a love for moving bytes around illegally.
- pelagicAustral 9mo agoBBS: The Documentary touches on _some_ Warez scene topics and legendary characters of the era. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
- djkoolaide 9mo agoHighly recommend downloading the .isos and playing them in mpv with deinterlacing. Lot of great native 60i footage in this doc.
- gxd 9mo agoNot a movie per se, but one of the protagonists in my game is a veteran from the warez scene. He mentions BlueBeep, BBSs and Demoscene in the game :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/
- dovik 9mo agoNot about warez but demoscene, the french movie "DEMO" is currently in pre-production. Demoscene from Atari ST and Amiga. https://fr.ulule.com/demo-par-alex-pilot/ https://fr.ulule.com/demo-par-alex-pilot/
- JasonADrury 9mo agoAlso not the warez scene, but the Swedish public broadcaster made a series about the pirate bay recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_(TV_series) It's watchable, but not great. It unfortunately doesn't cover many of the most interesting details, such as what happened with TPB after the operators were arrested.
- phrotoma 9mo agosee also: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2608732/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2608732/
- elahieh 9mo ago1990 to 1999, that would be exactly the development timeline of Celerity BBS. Just looking at the revision history of Celerity 2.04 on Discmaster, wow, that went forever! https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/43430/BBS_Software/DOS/CELERITY/cel204r.zip/CEL204-3.ZIP/REVISION.TXT https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/43430/BBS_Software/DOS...
- belZaah 9mo agoUniversity of Tartu sysadmins used to point warez.ut.ee to 127.0.0.1 back in 1993 just to confuse warez-interested but ill-educated youth like myself.
- xtiansimon 9mo agoThat university of Tartu, https://ut.ee/en https://ut.ee/en ? Which comes to mind because of the Department of Semiotics, founded by Juri Lotman.
- luke_skyywalker 9mo agohihi, detailed list, of stuff i did, from 1992 to 1998 awesome, loveit. found my name in 79 pages of nfo files
- self_awareness 9mo agoi remember some guy luke_skyw, or similar. Did you write any tutorials back then?
- wildredkraut 9mo agoGood ol' times :) Cheers to all the ex. Efnet and Underworld #warezgraphics, #warezart, #3dee, #3dwarez, #3dgfx, #warez3d fellas.
- empressplay 9mo agoand #oldwarez where we were trading 80s games in the 90s
- ok123456 9mo agoCan't forget #linuxwarez
- pcdoodle 9mo ago[dead]
- gtsnexp 9mo agoThose really were the good old days. My BBS ran out of my parents’ attic, with two phone lines and Renegade on the server (on a beefed-up PS/1). It was pure magic.
- tdullien 9mo agoThe old warez cracking scene had an outsize impact on computer security. GRSecurity, Heartbleed vulnerability, most reverse engineering tools for security, etc. etc. etc. There's so much history here, touching on all sorts of insanity including selling 0-day to the US government that was then used to apprehend high-level Al-Qaida personnel, random warez busts leading to people taking oversea jobs, etc. etc. etc. If anyone still has old .NFO archives from 1990-2000, I'd be very interested in getting as many as possible.
- wuschel 9mo agoInteresting. Where is it possible to read up on this?
- unixhero 9mo ago.nfo archives is quite complete out there on the archive sites. Those days were crazy busy in the warez world and the nfo files are a blast to read.
- echelon_musk 9mo ago> If anyone still has old .NFO archives from 1990-2000 Have you checked https://srrdb.com https://srrdb.com ?
- giraffer 9mo agoHere's the one I uploaded. It was the most extensive collection back in the day. The dates listed are from when they were fetched, they encompass all eras. https://archive.org/details/nfo_large_collection_2009_2012 https://archive.org/details/nfo_large_collection_2009_2012
- exitb 9mo agoHave you posted the right link? It seems to be a 2009-2012 collection, when the question was about the 90s.
- thijson 9mo agoI remember various people from that time pronouncing warez in two distinct ways. wares ware-ez I'm not sure which is the correct way.
- oldandboring 9mo agoMy interpretation was/is that they're both right. The word originated as 'wares with a Z' but once it was spelled that way it became natural to pronounce it 'ware-ez' but nobody thought you were unintentionally mispronouncing it. The in-joke continued on certain boards as 'warez' became 'Juárez'...
- squigz 9mo agoOkay I'm a little embarrassed to admit I might have been pronouncing it that last way for the past 20 years...
- bombcar 9mo agoCiudad Warez was a common joke for us, though I do suspect one person actually pronounced it that way. Warez as "softwares" seems reasonable to me, but language moves.
- solumunus 9mo agoWare-ez is absolutely insane.
- dleslie 9mo agoWares, except the s sounds like a z.
- stackghost 9mo agoIt absolutely is pronounced "wares" as in "software" but 13 year old me didn't know that so I and everyone I knew pronounced it "war-ezz", as in "warfare". Oh, the times before voip
- jsonc 9mo agoman, those were the days! I was a coder for an amiga crew in australia, we had a heap of bbs's going and we'd phreak calls to scene BBS's in europe, usa & eastern aus. Amazing what mischief we'd get up to with a usrobotics hst modem ha :D
- nxobject 9mo agoFrom 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.
- achairapart 9mo agoI think all the listed software is available for download in the website still-active BBS: scenelist.org:23 (I only tried the web interface briefly).
- scize 9mo agosend me an email (address is listed on scenelist.org) and i can probably help you with that :)
- soseng 9mo agoIt's so easy to bait me with this nostalgia. There is something mysterious and enjoyable about dialing-in or connecting to a server in the unknown. During those days, many things were not easily discoverable which added to the fun. For a brief time, this extended to the early internet with IRC servers. I spent most of my early teenage years downloading warez, .wav music files, and trying not to be a n00b on #c while asking n00b questions Now that I am an old man, I wonder what today's youth do that is equivalent to this fun nerdy culture? Maybe I can partake, LOL.
- woleium 9mo agois it still roblox and or minecraft?
- sanderjd 9mo agoI worry that the sad truth is that there isn't anything similar for "kids these days". But hopefully there is something fun and deep like this for the youths in the AI world that I'm just too old to know about.
- drob518 9mo agoIndeed. Ah, the thrill of a 300 baud modem! :-)
- esafak 9mo agoI don't remember a .wav era. Roughly speaking, there was .mid, .mod, .mp3
- bombcar 9mo agoI remember a period of time where my computer was too slow to play MP3 but it could play WAV files. So I'd process a song from MP3 or similar to WAV and play it that way. Not sure why I bothered, really.
- amatecha 9mo agoyeah, 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 >_<
- Maro 9mo ago#zeraw on DALnet in the 90s, those were the days..
- mvkel 9mo agoSuch fond memories. So many OS reinstalls after inadvertently infecting my computer from a sketchy photoshop crack. You learn to never get too attached.
- Bluecobra 9mo agoSame, I think at one point I was reinstalling my (pirated) copy of Windows 98 SE at least once a month. In hindsight I should have pirated Norton Ghost as well.
- utopiah 9mo agoThat's how I learned computer security, learned how IIS would allow specific commands, which paths Windows would not show, etc. Very interesting. That's also, maybe more importantly, how I learned about information propagation and even epistemology because you HAD to 1st in order for your work to be valuable. A lot of fun, of lot of learning still valuable decades later. Warmly recommended!
- zozbot234 9mo agoIt'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!
- burnt-resistor 9mo agoArchive, archive, archive some more. Duplicate and make available to the public rather than hoard.
- scize 9mo ago[dead]
- luke_skyywalker 9mo agowondering, if someone has some top upload stats screenshots, from that time. elusive dreams or mustangs bbs or even any other.
- scize 9mo agodefacto2 has them :) https://defacto2.net/f/ae4664 https://defacto2.net/f/ae4664