Warez scene collection from 1989-2000

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Warez scene collection from 1989-2000

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I stumbled on this upload on Internet Archive... a massive 522GBs of scene releases. There's also a torrent link. https://archive.org/details/ibm-wgam-wbiz-collection
One of the commenters says - this appears to be two different sets, together:
- wgam + wbiz is the archive of "The WaREZ HouZE" BBS, 1989-1996;
- ibm* is the archive of "Piper's Pit" BBS, later "Piper's Pit" FTP, 1990-2000.

I haven't had time to go through all the lists but supposedly there's some rare things in there.
Someone made a text list of the wbiz files so it's easier to search here - https://archive.org/details/wbiz-0001-0895-all.txt
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Re: Warez scene collection from 1989-2000

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Very interesting!

From what I saw, it's a collection of programs, there are no games, right?
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I thought wgam would be games but the list of wbiz seems to be mostly software apps with only a couple games sprinkled in.
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