Earlier this week, Internet Archive software collector and historian Jason Scott answered our phone call to talk about one of his latest efforts: the Malware Museum, which offered online passersby a glimpse at how nearly 80 classic viruses worked once they infected an MS-DOS computer. We enjoyed picking his brain about the collection and told him so, at which point he stopped us from hanging up the phone.
“I have one more drop for you,” Scott said. “On Thursday, we’re going to put up a bunch of Windows 3.1 software. What we did for MS-DOS, we’re doing for Windows 3.1.”
We were immediately intrigued, remembering exactly what Scott and his slew of Archive.org volunteers did for MS-DOS and other computing and gaming platforms. Thanks to that team’s efforts, thousands of seemingly lost pieces of software had found new life, all brought back to life with free downloads and a mighty fine web-browser emulation solution. From beloved classics like Oregon Trail to cult hits like Karateka, the collection’s thousands of titles seemed to have it all.
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