ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/
This is a mirror of a Finnish enterprise called X2 Support Group:
X2-archive is a collection of programming related material. Our main
emphasis has been on the msdos game programming scene, but hopefully
our scope will expand further beyond msdos in near future.
All material herein have been carefully selected to aid a programmer
to create something new. We have preferred documents and source code
over typical binary distributions to avoid becoming yet another
PD/Shareware museum.
Some of the files available from our internet archive sites have been
removed from this CDROM-distribution due restrictive licenses imposed
upon distributing them 'commercially'. A lot of material included on
this CDROM have been included based on special permissions given to us
by the authors and copyright owners. These permissions do not apply to
any further copies made out of these packages by a third party.
We have checked and rechecked all material herein but errors and
mistakes are destined to lurk somewhere in a dark corner hidden from
our eyes, waiting for you to discover them.
WE PROVIDE NO WARRANTY.
WE DO NOT GUARANTEE VALIDY OF ANY INFORMATION
FOUND WITHIN THIS DISTRIBUTION. [source]
I haven't heard about them before but they apparently have been actively supporting software developers, and even held a video game programming contest in 1995. The participants' entries can be found here:The main guideline of X2 Support Group is to promote development of
high quality software and to gather and make available information
related to the various phases of the software development and life. We
wish to make our archives available for everybody as widely as
possible, but we also have to make sure the archive is handled
according to our high standards. [source]
ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/mirror/x2ftp/msd ... contest95/
This is actually how I found them, they have an early demo of The Fourth Generation which was submitted to the contest: 4gen.zip
