Date   : Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:04:01 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Missing stuff from the archives (Re: Interest Dying Down?)

In article <3B33727F.41C67EA6@...>, W.H.Scholten
<wouter.scholten@...> writes

>  What's also still missing is a lot of documentation for games, roms
>(e.g. ADE, SPY, AID that I would like to see). I've started scanning

If you mean the ADE produced by a company called System, I have the
manuals.  (They're in a blue A5 ring binder IIRC.)  Happy to donate them
to the doc project, but will have to dig them out.

>  And there are still lots of programs missing. I'm looking for the
>Bitstik software (2 80 track discs: system & library) for example.

I have those (descriptions from the disc labels, in my handwriting)

Acorn BITSTIK System Master Disc v1.0
Acorn BITSTIK Introductory Library Disc v1.0
Acorn BITSTIK Buffer Disc v1.0

Acorn BITSTIK (v2.0) System Master Disc (:0) Plotter Drivers (:2)
Acorn BITSTIK (v2.0) Library Disc Vols 1 & 2, vol 1 on :0 vol 2 on :2

Unfortunately, I've just noticed the Bitstik 2.0 system master disc is
written on a DS/QD disc so god knows if that is still readable or
whether it's succumbed to bitrot.  Will have to get a drive set up and
try.

Earlier today, I had a purge of my 3.5" discs - thousands of the buggers
- and have saved a fair amount of Acorn Level 3/4 and SJ Nexus
networking stuff, plus some Archimedes SCSI card configuration utilities
and dealer diagnostics.  Does anyone think there'd be any interest in my
making images of those available?  Not sure which of the
comp.sys.acorn.* groups to ask in.

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