Subj : Re: Blue Board BBS Software - Martin Sikes - Searching.
To   : All
From : Paul Smith
Date : Mon Aug 17 2020 08:28 am

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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