[clug] indexed & searchable content of old CD-ROM's at Archive.org

[steve jenkin]

For those pining for old shareware and ancient games, this site may be interesting.

Warning - lots of “NSFW” content there as well.

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Site
	<http://discmaster.textfiles.com>

CD-ROM
	<http://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom/>

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The Rise of DISCMASTER
	<http://blog.archive.org/2022/10/24/the-rise-of-discmaster/>

	The site is DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM, and within its stacks lie multitudes of previously hidden software treasure, and a directed search engine that makes it a top-notch research tool.

	Therefore, sitting on the Archive, are tens of thousands of these CD-ROMs of the past. 
	And for a very long time, it’s been possible to download a Disc image, analyze its contents, search for useful or potentially interesting items, 
		and then find a way to make them work again.

	That last piece, in fact, is the hardest – not just knowing where the files you’re looking for are located, 
		but to be able to browse them without a massive host of helper applications scattered to the four winds.

	There are dozens of archive types, dozens and maybe hundreds of multimedia formats, and, even more frustrating, archives within archives – making everything that much harder to find.

	DiscMaster has fixed this.

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Archive.org - search for “CD Collection"

	<https://archive.org/search.php?query=CD-ROM+collection&sin=>

CD-ROM Software Library
	<https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware>

CD-ROM Software Collection
	<https://archive.org/details/cd-roms>

The Vintage Software Collection
	<https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware>

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