by RetroRomper » Tue May 15, 2012 3:12 pm
A torrent site I'm familiar with also provides large collections (everything from Amiga to PS2, Windows, DOS, Sinclair, etc. game / program packs) of various files. I guess the most relevant is a "DOS Compilation" that weighs in at around 350 gigs and...
Random Retro Game Collector wrote:The games are present in various formats: floppy images (people modify these rarely), CD images (these have usually the most content) and executable versions (these often contain cracks which can be useful and are instant runnable).
This collection also contains all languages, manuals, documents, images of dos games which where uploaded to UG.
The torrent collection contains:
• 916 games in iso format (1111 cd images)
• 327 games in ccd format (360 cd images)
• 39 games in 160KB floppy format (40 floppy images)
• 14 games in 180KB floppy format (14 floppy images)
• 2 games in 200KB floppy format (2 floppy images)
• 14 games in 320KB floppy format (15 floppy images)
• 239 games in 360KB floppy format (597 floppy images)
• 7 games in 400KB floppy format (10 floppy images)
• 290 games in 720KB floppy format (604 floppy images)
• 41 games in 1200KB floppy format (121 floppy images)
• 328 games in 1440KB floppy format (1155 floppy images)
• 5544 games in installed format
• 514 manual archives
• 392 document archives
• 658 image archives
• 101 crack archives
• 172 patch archives
The project will be regularly updated, but a torrent won’t be released quicker than once every year. I didn’t use torrentzip because changes will be probably too significant to make it worth and updates won’t happen too often.
This collection was assembled in about six months. If you want to help - feel free to add a comment and I promise to fix my mistakes and share it in the next release.
Casually browsing the available torrents, there appear to be compilations packs of this size mainly for the PC (as the sheer amount of games / programs released is staggering; the site covers everything from the Amstrad, OS/2, Win 3.1 to Win95) with more static (yet still over the 100+ gig marker) collections for every modern console up to the PlayStation 2. So there are other communities tending to these games, just gotta know where to look!
A torrent site I'm familiar with also provides large collections (everything from Amiga to PS2, Windows, DOS, Sinclair, etc. game / program packs) of various files. I guess the most relevant is a "DOS Compilation" that weighs in at around 350 gigs and...
[quote="Random Retro Game Collector"]The games are present in various formats: floppy images (people modify these rarely), CD images (these have usually the most content) and executable versions (these often contain cracks which can be useful and are instant runnable).
This collection also contains all languages, manuals, documents, images of dos games which where uploaded to UG.
The torrent collection contains:
• 916 games in iso format (1111 cd images)
• 327 games in ccd format (360 cd images)
• 39 games in 160KB floppy format (40 floppy images)
• 14 games in 180KB floppy format (14 floppy images)
• 2 games in 200KB floppy format (2 floppy images)
• 14 games in 320KB floppy format (15 floppy images)
• 239 games in 360KB floppy format (597 floppy images)
• 7 games in 400KB floppy format (10 floppy images)
• 290 games in 720KB floppy format (604 floppy images)
• 41 games in 1200KB floppy format (121 floppy images)
• 328 games in 1440KB floppy format (1155 floppy images)
• 5544 games in installed format
• 514 manual archives
• 392 document archives
• 658 image archives
• 101 crack archives
• 172 patch archives
The project will be regularly updated, but a torrent won’t be released quicker than once every year. I didn’t use torrentzip because changes will be probably too significant to make it worth and updates won’t happen too often.
This collection was assembled in about six months. If you want to help - feel free to add a comment and I promise to fix my mistakes and share it in the next release.[/quote]
Casually browsing the available torrents, there appear to be compilations packs of this size mainly for the PC (as the sheer amount of games / programs released is staggering; the site covers everything from the Amstrad, OS/2, Win 3.1 to Win95) with more static (yet still over the 100+ gig marker) collections for every modern console up to the PlayStation 2. So there are other communities tending to these games, just gotta know where to look!