MRM Software "archive"

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"DICKIE-BRICKIE ... 20 SCREENS ..."

A version of Dickie Brickie, another copy of Bandit (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!), and a game: Seawolf.

BANWOLD.SSD

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"MABELSOFT 6"

Some very rude pics and animations, NOT SAFE FOR WORK! The menu title is "SICSOFT II".

ZELRAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 59 times

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"MABEL SOFT COMPENDIUM"

Some very rude pics, animations, games and text generators -- NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

RUDERY.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 57 times

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A copy of Disk User magazine (issue 9, July 1988).

DISKU.SSD

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"Unofficial compilations" of various Beeb games.

FELGAME.SSD

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POLGAME.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 61 times

BERGAME.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 63 times

CHESGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 66 times

DRAGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 60 times

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More "unofficial compilations" of various Beeb games.

BUMGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 53 times

CLAUGAMA.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 71 times

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"SPARE ..."

A seemingly random collection of backup files from various games and/or graphics test programs.

SPAREF.SSD

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"MABELSOFT2"

More versions -- and possibly improved versions -- of games that seem to have already appeared on previous discs posted in this thread. Menu title is "MIKES MABELSOFT GAMES 1988".

MABEL2.SSD

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"MABELSOFT 3"

Yet more versions -- and possibly improved versions -- of games that have been posted in this thread previously. Plus, some animations and pics that are NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Menu title is "MIKES MABELSOFT GAMES 3 1989".

MABEL3.SSD

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"...CLUB DISC..."

Other versions (possibly improved versions) of games that have been posted previously in this thread. Menu title is "MIKES INEXPENSIVE PD STUFF".

MORMABA.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 36 times

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"MABELSOFT 4"

Games and animations, mostly NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

ZELRAM2.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 39 times

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"MABELSOFT 5"

Games and animations, versions of some of which have been posted in this thread already, and one of which is NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Menu title is "MIKES MABELSOFT GAMES 5 1990".

MABEL5.SSD

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"MABELSOFT"

Games that might already have been posted in this thread before, but possibly different versions of them. Menu title is "MIKES MABELSOFT GAMES 1988".

MABELN.SSD

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"MABELSOFT 8"

Jigsaw game and drumkit program. Plus, some picture files that are NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

MABEL8.SSD

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More "unofficial compilations" of various Beeb games.

NEARLY.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 57 times

A disc containing what appear to be savegame files from Sim City:

SAVSIM.SSD

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ASTROGAM.SSD

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DONKGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 43 times

MANIGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 36 times

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Still more "unofficial compilations" of various Beeb games.

JETGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 41 times

LYNGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 37 times

DEVGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 47 times

LADGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 39 times

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More and more "unofficial compilations" of various Beeb games.

CUMANA.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 47 times

WHERGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 52 times

ANDRGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 40 times

DUNGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 44 times

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And some more "unofficial compilations" of Beeb games.

ALLIGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 31 times

ACOGAM.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 48 times

PYRGAMB.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 45 times

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The Micro User + Impact Software "FREE XMAS GIFT" disc, 1988.

IMPACTF.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 55 times

Ignore this!:

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"MABELSOFT2"

More versions -- and possibly improved versions -- of games that seem to have already appeared on previous discs posted in this thread. Menu title is "MIKES MABELSOFT GAMES 1988".


MABEL2.SSD



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The two Dickie Brickie's made me initially think there was a 20 level version. But that doesn't appear to be the case. You can skip levels by pressing Tab and enter any number between 1 and 20, then pressing Enter. However, the last 4 levels just reuse sprites from earlier levels, with differing layouts. Level 19 is impossible to finish though.

Well, it got my hopes up!

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The next few posts will hold copies of discs that contain various development versions of a program called "Toybox". Not sure which of the discs contain programs that actually work.

TOYB01.SSD

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TOYB02.SSD

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TOYB03.SSD

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TOYB04.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 34 times

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TOYB05.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 54 times

N.B. Toybox disc number 6 seemed to be corrupted and/or damaged, so I couldn't archive it.

TOYB07.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 49 times

TOYB07A.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 36 times

TOYB08.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 54 times

TOYB08A.SSD

(200 KiB) Downloaded 48 times

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TOYB09.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 49 times

TOYB09A.SSD

(200 KiB) Downloaded 42 times

TOYB10.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 49 times

TOYB11.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 38 times

TOYB11A.SSD

(100 KiB) Downloaded 42 times

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I found the following notes in the box labelled "Toybox", together with the discs I've already attached to the last few posts, above.

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I've now completed a first pass through all the 5.25-inch discs in this collection.

Those Wabash disks will require special care and attention: they're notorious for suffering from 'sticky shed' (where the magnetic coating flakes off onto the disc drive heads). I'm working on a way to recover them ...

Quite right! I skipped over most of the Wabash discs after I realised they were incredibly flaky and unreadable. There are also a number of other discs I was unable to archive because of dirt, damage, corruption, or protection. I'll post photos of them here for the record, in the hope that you, Phil (or someone else), will be willing to take them on and recover the data forensically.

I'll start off with the discs in the "white box":

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More discs from the "white box" that I wasn't able to archive:

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Yet more discs from the "white box" that I wasn't able to archive:

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Discs from the "blue box" that I wasn't able to archive:

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More discs from the "blue box" that I wasn't able to archive:

That's the last of the photos of the discs that I wasn't able to archive.

[philpem]

Discs from the "blue box" that I wasn't able to archive:

I can probably take these on and see if there's anything I can do -- I may have a bit of time spare over Christmas.

Have any of the "unrecoverable" disks been put into a disk drive?

Cheers
Phil