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Re: Blue Board BBS Software - Searching.

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lucid phreak <lucidphreak@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

Wow, yeah, I haven't heard much about BlueBoard for a long time.

This is the only thing I could find; you probably already discovered
this:

http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/COMMODORE/C64/BLUEBOARD/bluebbs.txt

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