The "Classic" PC Games Archives =============================== This is a copy of the original PC Games Archives that was maintained during the early nineties on ftp.uml.edu by Brian O'Neill, and from November 1995 until the summer of 1996 on ftp.uwp.edu by David Datta. The original site was discontinued in June 1997, and most mirrors have since removed their copies. Out of respect for the historic significance of this first large games archive, ftp.gamers.org has retrieved a copy of it from the depths of the Internet :) and gives it a new home for as long as this site may exist. Below follow the relevant parts of the original README file. A partial Index.list has also been restored. Please note that the official company directories for Apogee/3DRealms, Epic, Id and MVP have been removed as these have since gained their own company sites: http://www.apogee1.com/ http://www.3drealms.com/ http://www.epicgames.com/ http://www.idsoftware.com/ http://www.mvpsoft.com/ Enjoy! =============================== The PC Games Archives The PCGA is an unfunded, unsanctioned service to provide a central repository for the PC Gaming community. All manner of "freely distributable" (i.e. public domain, freeware, shareware, unrestricted, etc., herein referred to as "freely distributable") games and accessories which run under MS-DOS or MS-Windows 3.X are accepted. It is also an official distribution site for games from Apogee, Epic MegaGames, MVP, and Id, as well as Game Bytes electronic magazine. All items stored in the archives are in either self-extracting format, or ZIP 2.0 format. All ZIP files require PKZIP 2.X or later or Info-ZIP's UNZIP 5.0p1 or later. All executable items are scanned with the latest versions of various virus scanners at the time they were placed in the archives. Currently the various sections of the archives include: apogee - Apogee-distributed games (official site) arcade - Arcade-style games bbsdoors - Games suitable for BBS Doors cards - Various games based on playing cards demos - Demos of commercial games (playable and unplayable) editors - Game editors for FD and commercial games education - Educational games epic - Epic MegaGames (official site) fltsim - MS Flight Simluator accessories fps.football - Front Page Sports Football stuff game_bytes - Game Bytes Magazine (official site) game-dev - Game Development materials id - ID-distributed games links386_tournament - Links 386 Tournament stuff mahjongg - Various MahJongg games misc - Games not covered elsewhere moraff - Moraff games mvp - MVP Software (official site) patches - Commercial patches program - Game programmers accessories/libraries puzzle - Puzzle-type games sports - Sports-related games tetris - Tetris/Columns type games textad - Text Adventures top100 - Net PC Games Top 100 trivia - Trivia games utils - Utilities for FD, commercial, and non-computer games vgaplanets - VGAPlanets multiplayer game and support files windows - Miscellaneous games for Windows 3.1 These archives cannot be used by CD-ROM vendors without prior approval. Disclaimer: The archive maintainers do their best to insure the integrity of all files in the archives, but not all situations can be accounted for. UML, UWP and the archive maintainers cannot be held responsible for any damages incurred from the use of the archives or the data contained therein.