Subj : Re: Blue Board BBS Software - Martin Sikes - Searching.
To   : Paul Smith
From : lucidphreak@gmail.com
Date : Thu Sep 24 2020 07:11 am

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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