This Account Kills FascistsToday a friend told me that undernet.irc's #oldwarez has a Discord. Nearly spat out my tea. Yay for reconnecting with old friends.
flamepanther ☢️Who remembers downloading ROMs from The Dump? Stumble's FTP?
vga256many folks here might not be familiar with #retrocomputing #piracy #history
in the late 90s and early 2000s i was in an #oldwarez group called ATLANTiS. we released long forgotten #DOS (and later, #win3.1 & #win95) abandonware. most of it ended up on usenet, in alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.old.
here are three of our ascii nfo files supplied at three distinct periods of our tiny group's history. as the group aged, the ascii art improved, and the member list shrivelled to just myself.