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New Frontiers CD-ROMSShareware Explorer for MS-DOS - #1 (1993)

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Identifier: cdrom-exdos1
Mediatype: software
Publicdate: 2011-11-26 02:33:53
Addeddate: 2011-11-26 02:33:53
Creator: New Frontiers CD-ROMS
Date: 1993
Year: 1993
Language: English
Keywords: MS-DOS software

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Reviewer: DopefishJustin - - February 12, 2012
Subject: Treasure trove
As the title would suggest, this CD-ROM contains mostly software for MS-DOS. The thing is that it was produced in 1993, and software at this point was so small that there is a staggering amount and variety of stuff packed into this one disc - over 8,500 ZIP archives in 68 category folders.

It's especially good for coverage of non-game utility and productivity software - folder after folder of organizers, menu shells, word processors, and all the /stuff/ that people added onto DOS to make it actually good for something. I had a blast just browsing through the FILES.BBS description file for each category and finding lines like the following:

"BIKREPAR.ZIP [0] Bicycle Tune Up And Repair Program V2.01." (directory A002)
"JUGLE3.ZIP [0] Learn To Juggle Very Good Tutorial." (directory A002)
"SAPIR.ZIP [0] Best Hebrew/english/russian Word Processor No "hebrew Chip" Required. Will Work In The Regular Hebrew Ascii Mode Or In Graphics Mode." (directory A015)
"FLOPPY.ZIP [0] If You Have Colledted Floppies Over The Years You Need This Program. It Will Organize All Of Those Disks. It's The Easies Program Designed To Do The Job Looks Good To!!!." (directory A019)
"YU_BBS.ZIP [0] Read About The Bbs Scene In Yugoslavia." (directory A043)

Highly recommended for hobbyists setting up a retro DOS machine (or VM) or anyone interested in how everyday people actually used home computers in the early '90s.