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Freeware - DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 - 577GB FTP Archive
- by
- shotter_nail
- Publication date
- 2022-07-29
- Topics
- Freeware, DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10, FTP
- Collection
- television_inbox; television
The collection has accumulated over 20+ years and contains 90,000+ (mainly) freeware programs going back to the 1980's.
The archive files are contained in directories under the root "FTP_HOME".
I've attached a listing of most of the directories here in .txt format but I suggest that you access the FTP server and download a more thorough catalog.
You can explore the directories at your leisure with a suitable FTP client and I've also uploaded an excellent small and portable FTP client here - the Pablo FTP Wanderer (FTP connection details included).
Note that FTP bandwidth is restricted to 5 Mbps download as I only have a rather restricted bandwidth connection.
Disclaimer - Please read very carefully:
Adult behavior is required when downloading these files, as over 20+ years I've collected some programs that your AV will object to.
These will typically be programs such as windows key finders or windows activators or keygen.
These haven't caused me any problems over the years - but if they cause you concern then delete any that your AV objects to.
Don't get fired up about it and snap off a post - as to put it politely - I told you so.
Before letting me know my FTP server doesn't work / isn't accessable / throws an obscure error code, be aware that:
* Trying to connect as "admin" will result in Synology's firewall blocking your ip until the end of time
* Trying to connect as anything other than "anonymous" will result in Synology's firewall blocking your ip until the end of time
* Trying FTP commands Synology doesn't accept will most likely result in Synology's firewall blocking your ip until the end of time
* Multiple and/or concurrent logins that last for only a second or two will result in Synology's firewall blocking your ip until the end of time
* Using a VPN will probably result in Synology's firewall refusing the connection as it objects to connections that originate in countries whose name is comprised of random letters of the alphabet.
* Your FTP client may or may not work with the Synology FTP server as Synology is Synology . . . I suggest using a simple FTP client such as Pablo Software Solutions FTP Wanderer v3.0 - it's small, portable, free and works (it's what I use for FTP client testing).
* The FTP server on Synology is available 24/7 and has been running without any issues and getting a fair amount of traffic, so before you tell me it isn't contactable / available, check that the FTP client you're using isn't the cause of the problem you're having.
The simplest way to do this is to try using Pablo's FTP Wanderer as a check of your wizz-bang FTP client and see if FTP Wanderer reports the same issues as your FTP client. If FTP Wanderer has no issues accessing my FTP server, then it's your FTP client that's the problem.
* Finally - I'm not a tech, so I can't solve access issues you may be having.
shotter_nail
December 2022
- Addeddate
- 2022-07-29 03:51:45
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Reviews
Subject: Der Appleseed - Thank you for the comments
Thank you for the positive comments.
I really should ignore armchair experts but they do wind me up a bit, especially the latest crop who proclaim that 64 bit Windows can't be installed on an MBR disk. Oh well.
(I've amended the FTP link above so it's a little less obscure.)
You've some excellent uploads here and I'll certainly be checking System Commander and the Vbox 32bit colour driver for W2K.
Kind regards,
shotter_nail
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George Chvarkov - The website is correct
Hello George,
I appreciate your comments, but I can find no errors on my web page which
discusses the maximum usable number of MBR partitions in DOS/Windows.
As to the extract from my web page that you included in your comments:
If you visit the Microsoft Windows Hardware Developer article based on the
https link on my web page, you'll see that under the paragraph heading
"Disk partition rules" MS clearly states in bullet point 2 that:
"You can include as many logical partitions as your disk can hold".
This is obviously not correct - refer to Microsoft Q41189 of December 2000
or KB41189 of May 2003 Revision 2.0 (if in doubt, try it yourself in a VM).
The point I was making is that the author / editor of this technical article had
not checked the correctness of this statement and should perhaps spend less
time on TikTok and more time on verifying the correctness of what was being
published under the name of Microsoft.
Additionally, my web page does not claim NT (or any other version of Windows)
is limited to A-Z drives - quite the contrary.
As my web page clearly states:
"When Windows uses the NTFS file system you can choose to map and mount a
virtually unlimited number of drives in Windows - the restriction being that only
26 of the drives (i.e., partitions or CD ROMs or floppy drives) can be assigned
a drive letter of A through Z.
Mounting drives when you've run out of drive letters is simple - map the drive
(partition) to an NTFS folder and Windows will mount it as a folder and put a
nice little hard drive icon against it to indicate it's a drive mounted as a folder."
Further, your comment on "claims that 26 drive is limit for MS-DOS" is not my claim -
it is simply a re-iteration of what Microsoft said in Q41189 of December 2000, namely:
"The maximum number of total drives that MS-DOS
can use is 26: Drive A through Drive Z"
As for your suggestion of visiting the oddly named "superuser" forum - I have done
so in the past but find many of the posts to be too insulting for my liking.
Kind regards,
shotter_nail
Subject: Holy archive Batman
Took me a couple times browsing your post to find the actual ftp link. My bad. My excuse is I'm old.
Anyhoo: Do the rest of us a favor and ignore the fecking "interent experts" that do not know how to say thanks, and only post to criticize your efforts (and btw, wtf has any of THEM done?).
BTW, thanks. And will keep Pablo in my kit.
TTFN, AppleSeed
Subject: You're site contains an error :)
You are actually are wrong in this:
And a small aside on the risks of allowing IT graduates to edit your technical articles.
The Microsoft Windows Hardware Developer article dated 30 November 2021 ( link: https://learn.microsoft.
com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-more-than-four-partitions-on-a-biosmbr-
based-hard-disk?view=windows-11 ) states:
"You can include as many logical partitions as your disk can hold."
Whoops-a-daisy - time to stop having IT graduates edit your articles - or perhaps IT now = I'm on Tiktok ?
Windows NT is not limited to A-Z drives. It actually internally doesn't even use A-Z mapping.
The one you cite, claims 26 drive is limit for "MS-DOS". NT doesn't have anything to do with DOS, so that argument is void when using NT, 2000, XP or newer.
This 26 partition limit is valid in case of DOS and Win 9x, though.
You can find more info here: https://superuser.com/questions/293922/what-if-the-hard-disk-is-partitioned-into-more-than-26-sections-in-windows
Subject: Connection Failed
Log:
Status: Resolving address of shotterftp21.mooo.com
Status: Connecting to 203.40.81.124:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status: Initializing TLS...
Status: TLS connection established.
Status: Logged in
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Status: Server sent passive reply with unroutable address. Using server address instead.
Command: MLSD
Error: Connection timed out after 10 seconds of inactivity
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing
Subject: Fail
I'm in the US, IP is
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