I miss tKC (The Keyboard Caper) and Phrozen Crew.

FAiRLiGHT was popular during the game CD / SecurROM days iirc.

PARADOX, CLASS, SKIDROW and RELOADED I remember as well.

Reading .nfo files was fun, the artwork was great too.

I remember the sometimes less than subtle jabs these groups threw at each other in the nfo files :)

One of the "Commander-class" file managers had a quick view that displayed the contents of FILE_ID.DIZ if you navigated to a directory that had one.

Man, I do remember those names - never would have guessed that the groups that provided me so many games would make me feel nostalgic...

Hotline, Eagle Soft, ...

I do not want too write too much but what a time.

Quartex? THG?

the humble guys

I knew that FLT was FairLight and TRSI was TriStar?

tristar and red sector incorporated*

I remember RZR, FLT and DRG. There was also a group doing rips where they took out all alternate language audio, re-compressed cutscenes, and then repacked the whole came with uHARC, turning 9.4GB downloads into 5GB, maybe even less. I had a good internet connection already at that time, but I imagine for people in countries with bad internet (<2020s American internet for example) it must have been magical.

to prove you are elite, what do these mean: f00, BAR, SLOW, ABS, NB, TF, SLM

;P

You forgot DoD!