Vetusware

[k2x4b524[]

Anyone have problems with it or is it just me?

 

[Chuckster_in_Jax]

The site is up and running. When I tried to download a file there is activity showing in the browser status bar. However, the transfer never starts and I don't get any error message.

 

[linuxlove]

[shameful plug]BetaArchive has a decent sized abandonware repository...[/shameful plug]

My own personal experiences with Vetusware have always been good as far as actually downloading the file.

 

[Chuck(G)]

"Abandonware"? There's no such thing--at least not legally.

 

[NeXT]

Vetus is technically a warez site but it seems that for the most part they have managed to get a lot of crap past the radar.

 

[mbbrutman]

I think we've had the Vetusware (and abandonware) discussion here before. How they run, or how much they are paying for bandwidth to distribute stuff that isn't legally theirs really isn't a good discussion topic for us.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Vetus is technically a warez site but it seems that for the most part they have managed to get a lot of crap past the radar.

That's probably because they're in the Ukraine.

 

[Ole Juul]

A bunch of stale windows stuff of dubious provenance ... probably got germs. Reminds me of a bad second hand store - a few scratched records, and a couple of dirty cassettes, with perhaps an I Love NY mug in the mix.

Here are some legal, and slightly more upscale choices:

Simtel.net
Garbo
Vertrauen
THE PC-BLUE COLLECTION

 

[Caluser2000]

Lots of bad links on Simtel.net, the others are sweat though.

 

[Ole Juul]

Lots of bad links on Simtel.net, . . .

Thanks for the heads up. I normally only suggest the DOS collection which I personally use extensively but there are no links in those directories and the programs are "in stock". Except, of course, for the PCMag utilities, which we all know about. I've never as much as looked in any of the other directories. I guess I won't recommend those again.

 

[Klee]

I signed up there , and I was never able to download anything and I now get tons of spam in my email.

 

[Chuck(G)]

When you sign up for these things that requires an email response, please use a service such as Mailinator. It will save you lots of spam grief.

 

[k2x4b524[]

haven't tried simtel.net itself BUT i do use the dos archive

http://www.digsys.bg/simtel.net/msdos.html

that's a good one, and brutman, i know we have had the vetusware discussion before, but i know that many of us here do use and maybe frequent, hence the probing to see if the problem was just on my end or multiple users

 

[Shadow Lord]

Hmmm... Weird I signed up and haven't had any issues with them. My biggest beef w/ Vetusware is that there is no QC at all.

 

[Caluser2000]

haven't tried simtel.net itself BUT i do use the dos archive

Which particular ftp mirror? The few I've tried there's nothing in the msdos directories. And getting 404 errors all over the place on other links.

Goodness. Now this works:- ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/

This was on the Swiss ftp mirror readme.txt:-
"The Simtel archive is no longer using mirror sites, so please turn to the
original site to find the files you are looking for:
http://www.simtel.net/

20091014 switchmirror@switch.ch"

 

[Ole Juul]

That's funny about Simtel. It must have just happened. Anyway, these two sites work as of a few minutes ago. I downloaded files to make sure.

http://www.digsys.bg/simtel.net/msdos/index-msdos-pre.html
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/

The second one has a seriously irritating format, but at least it is not as bad as the Simtel sites with the pictures. Those are a direct insult to any DOS user.

Anyway, Caluser2000, sorry you've had trouble with this. Here is another really good one:

http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/fehq/DOSUtils/00_index.htm

 

[Caluser2000]

Lol just user error I think . Cheers Ole.

 

[k2x4b524[]

http://www.scovetta.com/

That scovetta site has a back-up of the simtel archive.

 

[Ole Juul]

http://www.scovetta.com/

That scovetta site has a back-up of the simtel archive.

I see Root > Walnut-creek > SIMTEL > ARCHIVES but that's not it. Perhaps he stopped hosting it.

 

[mikerm]

Ole Juul, Check out Root > Simtelnet > msdos