136,313
136K
Jul 10, 2017
07/17
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America On-Line
In the early 1990s, the service provider America On-Line (AOL) initiated a new "carpet-bombing" approach to acquiring new members, sending free CD-ROMs throughout the USA offering trial access to the service. This approach grew AOL from 200,000 accounts to over 22 million. Along the way, millions of CD-ROMs were produced for AOL, at one point representing 50% of all CDs being manufactured worldwide. As a result, millions of CDs landed in the world and went to all sorts of locations,...
94,578
95K
Oct 16, 2020
10/20
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Microsoft
Topic: Microsoft Licensing
127,237
127K
Oct 16, 2020
10/20
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Microsoft
Collection of Microsoft Select CD-ROM Update Kits. "Receipt of your enrollment will automatically generate your one free Select CD-ROM Update Kit subscription that will run for the duration of the enrollment. Subscription customers will automatically receive a Select CD-ROM Update Kit approximately every 45 days or eight (8) kits per year until the end of their Microsoft Select Agreement. These shipments will be grouped by month of release and by language groups within each pool...
Topic: Microsoft Select
82,104
82K
Jul 27, 2017
07/17
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Triada
Triada was a Russian CD and DVD-ROM Compilation group that flourished in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Компания «Triada» — один из представителей «позднего этапа» развития деятельности пиратских игровых издателей, работавших на территории СНГ. Среди всей продукции издательства игры занимали доминирующую позицию,...
2.8M
2.8M
Jan 14, 2014
01/14
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Various
In the early years of home computer ownership, magazines and newsletters might come bundled with a floppy disk to make it easier to load up programs discussed within their pages. These attached floppies (and cassettes as well) might have one or two programs on them. After the dawn of CD-ROMs, packed-in CD-ROMs (and later DVD-ROMs) expanded out into lauded utilities and games, and also included drivers, demos, promotional material (including game trailers), and ultimately could be entire...
Topics: software, magazines, cd-rom, dvd-rom, dvd, cd
1.2M
1.2M
Mar 5, 2016
03/16
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Various
CD-ROM images of driver discs, installation media, and documentation companions that were included with hardware or operating systems.
704,221
704K
Sep 21, 2019
09/19
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Various
A collection of software packages originally created for the now-defunct OUYA console.
26.7M
27M
Jan 9, 2018
01/18
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Various
These are images of CD-ROM software that do not have any other major documentation or scans. While they may have useful information, some effort will be required to extract the data.
295,242
295K
Jul 24, 2015
07/15
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Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek CDROM (of Walnut Creek, California) was an early provider of freeware, shareware and free software on CD-ROMs. The company was founded in August 1991 by Bob Bruce and was one of the first commercial distributors of free software on CD-ROMs. The company produced hundreds of titles on CD-ROMs, and ran the busiest FTP site on the Internet, ftp.cdrom.com, for many years. The CD-ROMs in this collection were imaged from original Walnut Creek CDs.
GameStar is a monthly released PC computer game magazine, published by the IDG Entertainment Media GmbH in Germany. In 2008 it had an average monthly circulation of 250,000 copies and is therefore the best sold PC computer game magazine in Europe. It is also being published in Hungary, the Czech Republic and China. IDG started it also in Italy, Poland and the USA?but those issues have folded after a few months, although the corresponding web sites still exist. The US version was, quite...
A collection of CDi (Interactive CD-ROM) CD-ROMs from the 1990s and 2000s.
Die PC Action (kurz PCA) war ein deutsches PC-Spiele-Magazin, herausgegeben von der Computec Media AG in Fürth. Die PC Action erschien monatlich, normalerweise am zweiten Mittwoch jeden Monats, und hatte pro Ausgabe etwa 150 Seiten, abhängig vor allem von der Anzahl aktuell erscheinender Spiele. Die Zeitschrift hatte einen humoristischen Einschlag. Mit der Ausgabe 01/2013 stellte Computec Media die Zeitschrift ein.
CD-ROMs from PC Review Magazine.
PC World, stylized PCWorld, is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. Since 2013, it has been an online only publication. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal technology products and services. In each publication, PC World reviews and tests hardware and software products from a variety of manufacturers, as well as other technology related devices such as still and video cameras, audio devices and televisions. The current...
CD-ROMs that would provide compilations of photos or clip art, for re-use or enjoyment.
Archival project for NVIDIA drivers on various platforms.
Topics: nvidia, drivers
NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from NNTP (Usenet) servers. The format was conceived by the developers of the Newzbin.com Usenet Index. NZB is effective when used with search-capable websites. These websites create NZB files out of what is needed to be downloaded. Using this concept, headers would not be downloaded hence the NZB method is quicker and more bandwidth-efficient than traditional methods. Each Usenet message has a unique identifier called the...
The evolt.org browser archive hosts historical copies of web browsers stretching back to the early days of the Internet. In addition to the most well-known browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape, it has several dozen other browsers which have seen use over the years. These can be invaluable aides in testing the compatibility and accessibility of a web site. For more information, please visit the evolt.org web site .
Collection of FreeBSD Installation media, primarily from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. Contains installation programs, data files, optional installation files, instructions, and other support data related to the FreeBSD Operating system.
This collection contains .tar or .zip files of the collections of these sites, which are then browsable using the Internet Archive's archive view functionality. Created in 1971 (and refined in 1985), the File Transfer Protocol allowed Internet or network-connected computers to transfer binary and ASCII files between each other. To facilitate transferring of files in a pre-WWW era, FTP sites allowing anonymous or open-access connections became available worldwide. As they were often connected to...
The Games Machine, also known by the acronym TGM, is an Italian Video game magazine. The magazine features previews, reviews, and cheat codes for computer games. Launched in September 1988 as the Italian edition of the British magazine The Games Machine by the Milan-based publishing company Xenia Edizioni. The publishing of the Italian edition has continued also after the close of the British edition, The Games Machine became one of the most popular video games magazine in Italy. In November...
A collection of CD-ROM based magazine issues.
Total Guitar is a monthly magazine based in the United Kingdom. The magazine is owned by Future plc, who publish many other magazines ranging from drums and video games to technology magazines. Total Guitar regularly contains tablature for rock, acoustic, punk, Blues, and Metal, as well as detailed profiles of guitarists and their specific techniques and playing styles. Total Guitar is aimed at players who would like to learn how to play guitar, with dedicated beginner tutorials in acoustic and...
This is a wide and variant collection of CD-ROM based software, that is, software that came on a CD-ROM for installation on computers, or played in consoles. Ranging from applications and games to gatherings of public-domain software or clip art, the heyday of the CD-ROM is roughly 1989 to 2001. In all cases, the capacity of the CD-ROM stayed steady at 640-700mb a side, although some used tricks to claim they had more (due to compression, or adding up both sides of two-sided CD-ROMs). Most are...
This collection consists of items that utilize, reference, or are Shockwave Flash, the now-defunct animation, graphics and sound system that was a dominant form of multimedia on the web for nearly a decade and a half.
Images of Atari Computer (8-bit, 16-bit) floppy disks, done with flux-reading hardware and other similar methods. These will often require additional conversion/efforts to play in emulators or on systems.
One of the most historically important artifacts to come from the home computer telecommunications revolution was shareware CDs, compact discs put out by companies containing hundreds of megabytes of shareware. Initially containing less than the full capacity of the discs (600mb, later 700mb) these items eventually began brimming with any sort of computer data that could be packaged and sold. As material "ran out", that is, as sellers of these CDs found they were unable to easily find...
Topics: Mark Fugitt, Mike Laybourn, sysop, RBBS software
CD-ROMs from the Polish Computer Magazine "Secret Service".
CD-ROM Coverdiscs from the US and UK editions of Computer Shopper.
Adventure Game Studio is an open source game-making tool for creating point-and-click graphic adventures in the tradition of Sierra and LucasArts titles like Space Quest and The Secret of Monkey Island. The first version was created by Chris Jones in the late 1990s, and as it was developed and expanded in the years that followed, a community grew that created hundreds of AGS games.
Cover CDs from the Russian magazine "Hacker" or хакер.
MAGS is a monthly contest to create a game using Adventure Game Studio (AGS) on a given theme. The theme is usually chosen by the previous month's winner. The winner is chosen by an online vote in the Adventure Game Studio community . MAGS has been running since 2001, and over the years hundreds of games have been created for it.
A collection of IBM PC CD-ROM Based Software, primarily from the 1990-2000 era.
Der PC Joker war die erste Computerspiele-Zeitschrift für IBM-PC-kompatible Computer, die wie der Amiga Joker im Joker-Verlag erschien. Der Verlag hatte seinen Sitz in Haar (bei München). Herausgeber des PC Joker waren Michael Labiner und seine damalige Ehefrau Brigitta Labiner. Zu den bekanntesten Redakteuren des Magazins gehörten Carsten Borgmeier und Richard Löwenstein. Weitere bekannte Redakteure des PC Joker waren unter anderem Markus Ziegler, Michael Trier, Dieter Marchsreiter,...
Cover CD-ROM and DVD-ROMs from PC Online Magazine.
PC Plus was a computer magazine published monthly from 1986 until September 2012 in the UK by Future plc. The magazine was aimed at intermediate to advanced PC users, computer professionals and enthusiasts. The magazine was specifically for users of PCs and related technologies so features articles were undiluted by coverage of other platforms.
New creations for classic systems / Nuevas creaciones para sistemas clásicos
Topic: Spanish Homebrew Archive
Cover CD-ROMs from Power Play Magazine.
DOS/V Power Report is a Japanese PC magazine originally published monthly since 1996, and then quarterly since 2019. For several years, the magazine included one or two CD or DVD discs with each issue, containing a variety of mostly Japanese-language programs, games, and multimedia, several of which were compiled from the internet.
"Doom WAD is the default format of package files for the video game Doom or its sequel Doom II, that contain sprites, levels, and game data. WAD stands for "Where's All the Data?" Immediately after its release in 1993, Doom attracted a sizeable following of players who created their own mods for WAD files—packages containing levels, graphics and other game data—and played a vital part in spawning the mod-making culture which is now commonplace for first-person shooters....
A large collection of vintage software, unsorted and awaiting a final destination.
Linux Format was the UK's first Linux-specific magazine, and is currently the best-selling Linux title in the UK. It is also exported to many countries worldwide. It is published by Future Publishing (which produces PC Plus, .net and many other computer magazines). Linux Format is commonly abbreviated to LXF, and issues are referred to with LXF as a prefix followed by the issue number (for example LXF102 refers to the 102nd issue). Articles within Linux Format are well established, regularly...
Built on a modified version of Valve's Source engine, Garry's Mod (or GMod for short) is a physics sandbox game. One of the great strengths of Garry's Mod is that it is incredibly modder-friendly. This has lead to a thriving community that is always coming up with new addons and gamemodes for everyone to enjoy.
Cover CD-ROMs from the UK magazine Computer Buyer, which ceased publication in 2009.
Topic: coverdiscs
A collection of the dutch CD-ROM release series "Twilight". The full history of Twilight can be read at http://twilight-cd.com/
MacAddict was the first North American magazine focused on the Macintosh to include a CD-ROM with every issue. MacAddict's discs included shareware and demo programs, but also came with other added features, such as staff videos and previews of content inside the magazine's hard copy. The MacAddict website was updated daily with news relevant to Apple products. MacAddict also had a mascot, a stick-figure named Max. In February 2007, MacAddict was relaunched as MacLife.
Inside Multi-Media is a collection of CD-ROMs released by Tronic-Verlag (German) through the 1990s. Containing music, graphics, and design software, multiple CD-ROMs were released over years.
The Linux Distribution Archive is a growing collection of media for the installation of Linux on various systems from the past 20 years. Since its formation in the early 1990s, the open source nature of Linux has ensured great variation in the release of distributions, including variations on floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and online-only.
A collection of cover CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs from PC Spiel Magazine, a German-language computer magazine published in the 1990s.
The DEMU collection consists of files from shareware CD-ROMs in the 90's. The files are quickly scanned and uploaded through a (mostly) automated process. Information for the items are generated from either a file_id.diz file (if one exists in the archive) or from a files.bbs listing. If you have meta data on a title you would like to submit or would like a specific item enabled for online play please email me at swizzle@demu.org .
The CKAN is a metadata repository and associated tools to allow you to find, install, and manage mods for Kerbal Space Program. It provides strong assurances that mods are installed in the way prescribed by their metadata files, for the correct version of Kerbal Space Program, alongside their dependencies, and without any conflicting mods.
Topics: ksp, kerbal space program, mod, ksp ckan
Inside Mac Games, or IMG for short, is a website dedicated to Apple Macintosh computer gaming. Founded in 1993, Inside Mac Games has transitioned from an electronic magazine into a web-only publication. It is operated by Tuncer Deniz.
A magazine that promoted alternative music, started in the mid-1990s as a print magazine with accompaying CD-ROM, eventually became solely a CD-ROM magazine. Was absorbed into Yahoo Music in the early 2000s.
Fun Online is a series of German-language CD-ROMs.
Hacker Magazine CD-ROMs (Hack CDs)
Game.EXE is a now-defunct monthly Russian magazine focused on video games. It was initially launched titled Toy Shop (Russian: Магазин игрушек) from March 1995 to December 1996. Starting 1997, it was renamed Game.EXE and ran until June 2006, with last 4 issues all in June.
This is a collection of various software programs that came on floppy disk media; while there are likely to be collections elsewhere at the archive, contributions often come in disparate piles of floppies and this collection holds them until being sorted more definitively.
This collection contains iso file images of the numerous open source BSD variants currently out there. This is an ongoing project and the current status is: adding FreeBSD isos.
Software from the Bithistory.org collection.
CD-ROM Today was an American magazine targeted at computer users. Published from 1993 to 1996 by Imagine Publishing (now Future US), the magazine was initially issued once every other month, before becoming a monthly. Each issue included software and hardware reviews, as well as a CD containing fonts, video and text files, system updaters, freeware and shareware and demo versions of commercial software. Products were included for both Macintosh and Windows PC. CD-ROM Today was the...
A collection of the official DirectX SDKs and additional components released by Microsoft. If you have any official release which is not included, please a write a mail to "[uploadername]@web.de" and I will add it here.
Topics: directx sdk, directx, sdk
With the introduction of offline storage (in the form of tape and punch cards, later floppy disks, hard drives and cards), computer users began to create and acquire all manner of data to use with their machines. Programs, textfiles, and later images, sound and moving image data would be collected in the course of computer ownership and maintenance. Over time, this collection would sometimes resemble a pile, or a library, or an archive. The unifying theme would only be that they were all on the...
Amiga Dream est la première publication du groupe Posse Press (également éditeur de PC Team). Elle a été créée à l'époque par Romain Canonge, ancien journaliste d'Amiga Revue, Francis Poulain, ancien membre du service technique de Commodore France et Christine Robert, ancienne rédactrice en chef d'Amiga Revue. Le premier numéro est sorti en novembre 1993 simultanément à l'arrivée en France de l'Amiga CD32, troisième console de la firme Commodore International après le C64GS et...
A collection of CD-ROMs for the Commodore Amiga/CD32/CDTV, primarily from the 1990-2000 era.
Topic: Commodore Amiga
Riki is a Polish computer magazine which included cover CD-ROMs (and floppy disks) through their years of publication.
Collection of CD’s released in Microsoft TechNet program.
Topic: Microsoft TechNet
A collection of CD-ROMs from NET Power magazine.
Computer Bild Spiele was a monthly released German PC computer game magazine, published by Computer Bild Digital GmbH and Axel Springer SE.
Topic: Computer Bild Spiele
Cover CD-ROMs from CU Amiga magazine.
Topic: Amiga software
Games created using Adventure Game Studio in seven days, featuring one location, for a contest event held by the AGS community.
Der WDR Computerclub im Westdeutschen Rundfunk war eine der ersten deutschen Fernsehsendungen, die sich mit den Themen Computer und Technik im Allgemeinen beschäftigte. Sie wurde zwischen 1981 und 2003 in zahlreichen dritten Programmen des deutschen Fernsehens ausgestrahlt. Von August 1994 bis Juli 1998 wurde auch eine CD namens Computer-Club-Digital produziert. Sie enthielt ein Video der Sendung und aktuelle Software. Auch diese neue Art der Vermittlung von Informationen gehörte zu den...
