NOTE: These files contain the entire collection of OS/2-related files collected on the OS/2 Shareware BBS over the period of March 1990 through August 2006. Each ZIP file represents a file area on the BBS. Since the BBS file collection grew and evolved over time, these file areas are in a semi-random order. Also, there is no file area 01, or 31. In time, I stopped using area numbers and switched to names. You can see that in the file area listings. Please note that each ZIP file contains the Maximus file descriptions, the most important of which is the FILES.BBS file. FILES.BBS files are text files with a single line of text for each file in the file system. Descriptions are limited to about 250 characters. Below are the BBS file area listings and their descriptions. This information is taken from the file ALLFILES.TXT which you'll find in the file ALLFILES.ZIP. ALLFILES.TXT is the master file containing all of the file descriptions which used to be generated nightly on the BBS. Questions, constructive comments, and nostalgic saluations can be sent to me at pete@os2bbs.com. Please note that there's a spam filtering system on that email address which requires you to respond via a web page to have your message delivered to my inbox. Sorry about that, but I'd really love to hear from you. The BBS was an amazing project and I truly loved running it. I was pretty active with it for over 15 years and sunk an incredible amount of time and energy into setting it up and running it. It was all worthwhile though -- the system peaked at about 10,000 users from all over the world. IBM's Lee Reiswig even included the system as a part of his live demonstrations to help show how amazing the operating system was. I made a lot of friends via the BBS, and sometimes I stop and wonder where everybody is now. Pete Norloff Oakton, Virginia November, 2014 pete@os2bbs.com 2 BBS and Fidonet programs 637 162394K 3 Communication programs 361 131315K 4 CD-ROM, SCSI, Comm, and Misc Device Drivers 887 214992K 5 Editors and Browsers 546 219320K 6 File and Directory Utilities 538 71849K 7 Games 456 200437K 8 Other programs and information 1154 722961K 9 Archive Utilities 218 41619K 10 Programming Tools 1731 1387838K 11 Utility programs 1062 104120K 12 ATM Font Files 310 39429K 13 Bitmap files 615 142835K 14 Text Files - General Info 1083 346184K 15 Text Files - Message Archives 39 18333K 16 Text Files - Announcements 982 10627K 17 OS/2 Warp 3.0 Fixes and patches 216 241415K 18 REXX programs 698 76891K 19 Printer utilities 143 82312K 20 Network Device Drivers and Information 213 27495K 21 Printer Device Drivers and Information 124 75873K 22 GNU Utilities and Applications 451 367426K 23 Sound files 58 41229K 24 DOS programs of interest to OS/2 users 325 249701K 25 Icons, Icons, Icons 309 58271K 26 OS/2 1.x Fixes and patches 13 26586K 27 OS/2 2.x Fixes and patches 179 152277K 28 OS/2 4.x Fixes and patches 219 399247K 29 Other Fixes and patches from IBM 1011 1078882K 30 Fixes and patches from other vendors 397 235683K 32 Text Files - OS/2 Periodicals 568 170497K 33 Video Device Drivers and Information 492 445773K 34 OS/2 Movie (AVI) files 70 213942K 35 Internet-related files (TCP/IP & Internet comm) 1231 676522K 36 Text Files - OS/2 Tips & Techniques 1464 66444K BACKUP Backup Programs 29 40965K EDUCATE Education and Entertainment 86 53028K FINANCE Finance and Accounting Programs 60 52007K GRAPHICS Graphics Viewers, Editors, and Utilities 243 176682K INFOMGT Information and Time Management Programs 243 159039K JAVA Java Programs and Information 143 276340K MULTIMED Multimedia Programs 378 170597K OTHERAPP Other Application Programs 209 240534K PRODUCT Productivity Programs 177 390282K SCIENCE Science, Engineering & Mathematics Programs 181 211806K SECURITY Security Programs 91 56033K SYSTOOLS System Tools 316 140396K WPS_PM WPS and PM Utilities 261 66820K