| Blue Board BBS Software - Martin Sikes - Searching. [message #397099] |
Sun, 26 July 2020 18:09  |
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Originally posted by: lucid phreak
I have been looking for quite some time now for the BBS Software, BlueBoard.. Blue Board was written in 1985 by Martin Sikes and was popular in the British Vancouver area. It was marketed and sold by a company and supposedly sold well - and was also pirated quite extensively - meaning this software wasn't some unknown thing that ran on a single BBS. It was popular.
I have found one guy on a BC commodore BBS users group who has a physical copy (he sent me pics of the binder and disk) but bit rot has taken the disk and he cannot even read it used Kryoflux. He is going to try and clean the disk with alcohol but I'm not terribly confident it is going to work.
That all being said I just thought I would post a note here on the off chance that someone might stumble across it who perhaps has a D64 or a working disk of the software.
I also run http://www.blueboardbbs.com in support of my endeavor and will have the software up for all to access once I find a copy.
Martin died an untimely death not too long after the BBS software was popular and I think he would like to see that he was remembered and that he left something behind that made people happy.. I hope to help!!!
Thanks - lucidphreak
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| Re: Blue Board BBS Software - Martin Sikes - Searching. [message #398088 is a reply to message #397099] |
Mon, 17 August 2020 11:28  |
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Originally posted by: Paul Smith
On Jul 26, 2020, lucid phreak wrote
(in article<853237d1-b8e3-40d8-b244-c39dbc01ba95o@googlegroups.com>):
> I have been looking for quite some time now for the BBS Software, BlueBoard.
> Blue Board was written in 1985 by Martin Sikes and was popular in the British
> Vancouver area. It was marketed and sold by a company and supposedly sold
> well - and was also pirated quite extensively - meaning this software wasn't
> some unknown thing that ran on a single BBS. It was popular.
>
> I have found one guy on a BC commodore BBS users group who has a physical
> copy (he sent me pics of the binder and disk) but bit rot has taken the disk
> and he cannot even read it used Kryoflux. He is going to try and clean the
> disk with alcohol but I'm not terribly confident it is going to work.
>
> That all being said I just thought I would post a note here on the off chance
> that someone might stumble across it who perhaps has a D64 or a working disk
> of the software.
>
> I also run http://www.blueboardbbs.com in support of my endeavor and will
> have the software up for all to access once I find a copy.
>
> Martin died an untimely death not too long after the BBS software was popular
> and I think he would like to see that he was remembered and that he left
> something behind that made people happy.. I hope to help!!!
>
> Thanks - lucidphreak
I remember that software, I’d love to find a copy as well. Are you in
Vancouver? Canada?
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| Re: Blue Board BBS Software - Martin Sikes - Searching. [message #400478 is a reply to message #398088] |
Thu, 24 September 2020 10:11 |
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Originally posted by: lucid...@gmail.com
On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 10:28:05 AM UTC-5, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2020, lucid phreak wrote
> (in article<853237d1-b8e3-40d8...@googlegroups.com>):
>> I have been looking for quite some time now for the BBS Software, BlueBoard.
>> Blue Board was written in 1985 by Martin Sikes and was popular in the British
>> Vancouver area. It was marketed and sold by a company and supposedly sold
>> well - and was also pirated quite extensively - meaning this software wasn't
>> some unknown thing that ran on a single BBS. It was popular.
>>
>> I have found one guy on a BC commodore BBS users group who has a physical
>> copy (he sent me pics of the binder and disk) but bit rot has taken the disk
>> and he cannot even read it used Kryoflux. He is going to try and clean the
>> disk with alcohol but I'm not terribly confident it is going to work.
>>
>> That all being said I just thought I would post a note here on the off chance
>> that someone might stumble across it who perhaps has a D64 or a working disk
>> of the software.
>>
>> I also run http://www.blueboardbbs.com in support of my endeavor and will
>> have the software up for all to access once I find a copy.
>>
>> Martin died an untimely death not too long after the BBS software was popular
>> and I think he would like to see that he was remembered and that he left
>> something behind that made people happy.. I hope to help!!!
>>
>> Thanks - lucidphreak
> I remember that software, I’d love to find a copy as well. Are you in
> Vancouver? Canada?
dallas TX...
I've found 2 people with the actual retail disk - but neither are readable.
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