Subj : Re: Hobbes OS/2 archive shutting down
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : fusion
Date : Sat Jan 13 2024 09:20 pm

On 12 Jan 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF>  Ga> https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/
 pF> 
 pF> I read that too, but thought that most OS/2 software is dustware by now,
 pF> and you could buy a Hobbes CD-ROM and not need a download site.

the hobbes archive has a lot of fairly modern stuff in it, mixed in with all the oldschool software. that's why older archives on e.g. archive.org might not be great. and an old purchased hobbes cdrom would have been outdated pretty quickly when it was contemporary (the incoming folder had a steady stream of new stuff even into the late 00's)

i suppose most of the newer stuff may have shifted from stuff for every category to mainly necessities (compilers, libraries, development and documentation stuff). if a new game showed up there, there'd probably be a parade.

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