discmaster – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:36:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png discmaster – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 CD-ROM Compilation Search Engine https://setsideb.com/cd-rom-compilation-search-engine/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=3424 Continue reading "CD-ROM Compilation Search Engine"]]> Set Side B often verges into adjacent tech areas, especially for older software, especially when those areas happen to contain a lot of games. This is just a note that the always-great Jason Scott of the Internet Archive has a great post about Discmaster, which is hosted at the IA, and is a search engine into the contents of a bunch of old CD-ROM file compilations. Many of these were shareware collections put out by companies like Walnut Creek, intended in the age immediately before the internet to put out collections of shareware, but sometimes bundling freeware, or libre-free software.

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Some of these files are very hard to find on the wider internet. When I visited Discmaster myself it was down for an upgrade (it’s a bad sign when your filesystem runs out of inodes) but I look forward to scouring its archives often in the future!

DiscMaster (Internet Archive)

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