Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!odin.sdfeu.org!.POSTED.205.166.94.166!not-for-mail From: azod Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc Subject: Re: Blue Board BBS Software - Searching. Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:25:28 -0700 Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System, Est. 1987 Message-ID: References: <1dd29a34-0a64-4145-9130-8b2fa06f0d3bn@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: odin.sdf-eu.org; posting-host="205.166.94.166"; logging-data="6536"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@odin.sdf-eu.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:K6KRJKC7NWOCfhJ9DkHUjXd93FQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.bbs.misc:114 lucid phreak 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