X-Received: by 2002:ae9:c20c:: with SMTP id j12mr21316123qkg.369.1595801667146; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:14:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:4ef:: with SMTP id 102mr17752779otm.289.1595801666784; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.183.228.7; posting-account=vyfj_woAAABVZZzsJQhPpJ2UK96bnKJw NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.183.228.7 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1dd29a34-0a64-4145-9130-8b2fa06f0d3bn@googlegroups.com> Subject: Blue Board BBS Software - Searching. From: lucid phreak Injection-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:14:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 22 Xref: csiph.com comp.bbs.misc:111 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 Bri= tish Vancouver area. It was marketed and sold by a company and supposedly s= old well - and was also pirated quite extensively - meaning this software w= asn'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 c= opy (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 chan= ce 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 h= ave 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 popul= ar 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