software preservation • Collection of BBC and A3010 material

Hello,

Apologies if I have the wrong forum. I wasn't sure where to post.

I've come into possession (legally, I hasten to add!) of quite a bit of BBC Micro and A3010 material: tapes, disks, manuals. I'm trying to work out what is worth preserving. Ultimately, I don't have the space to keep a lot of 30+ year old digital media.

A rough list of what I've found so far for the A3010:

- Acorn User disks 1994 ~ 1997, mostly complete
- Archimedes World disks, some from 1993 and 1994
- Acorn computing disks, some from 1994
- Impression Style, boxed (with some reissued disks -- for a bug fix, maybe?)
- SparkFS, with manual
- ArgoNet Voyager Suite, with manual
- RComp Messenger, with manual
- A few Acorn User magazines just as Acorn were dying [*]
- RISC OS 3.1 welcome disks
- Manuals, welcome guide

And for the BBC, the boxes are still mostly uncatalogued:

- Various games tapes and disks
- A ROM for Dr Who and the Mines of Terror
- User Guide and Advanced User Guide that have seen better days

I know / hope there's a copy of Balls on disk somewhere in there.

And I also have some RiscPC material lurking in a cupboard, e.g. Euclid, Flashback, Inferno, Alone in the Dark, Starfigher 3000, possibly in boxes.

There are also loads of personal disks that I have been imaging with Greaseweazel.

What's worth keeping and/or digitally preserving? I'd like any physical media to stay within the community and not just be flogged on $ONLINE_AUCTION_SITE.

Thanks in advance.

[*] There was a complete set of BBC Micro / Acorn User from the very beginning, except my parents decided to recycle them. All of them. Without asking. No, I'm not angry, just disappointed

Statistics: Posted by phodopus — Wed Jun 12, 2024 8:56 pm

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