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The Floppyshop Gold Collection
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It all began back in April 1987 when the STFM was released and Steve Delaney
bought a 520 STFM with mono monitor and a handful of PD disks from ST Club
and STar UK. Within three months, he taught himself the basics and launched
the Floppyshop User Group and its popular bi-monthly newsletter, Floppyshop
News. The PD library (originally only available to members) started out with
a mere 88 single-sided disks and grew at the rate of 80-120 disks every
couple of months for the next few years.
A lot has happened between then and now, including Floppyshop News' runner
up placement in the first National Desktop Publishing Awards, several
successful commercial releases, Irene Lamb joining Floppyshop and taking
over much of the day to day running of the business, Steve's various spells
as news editor of three leading Atari publication, the launch of the world's
first (perhaps only) PD Library for the Atari Falcon and much more....
Throughout the years, Floppyshop's detailed catalogue gained the respect of
customers and by early 1998, it could safely be said that they were the last
"active" Atari PDL in the world. Three or four others remained contactable,
but none were actively updating their collection. By mid-1998, the ST
Catalogue had around 3900 disks and there were almost 900 disks in the
Falcon catalogue.
When the market does eventually dry up, what will happen to this impressive
software collection? Will it be lost forever? With this sobering thought in
mind, combined with the fact that an increasing number of Atari owners now
have access to CD-ROM drives (either connected directly to their Atari or to
a PC at work), it made sense to release the entire Floppyshop collection on
CD-ROM. And thus, Floppyshop Gold was born......
Floppyshop Gold is a collection of seven CD-ROM discs which feature every
single disk from the current (July 1998) Floppyshop ST and Falcon
catalogues. Each comes complete with its own catalogue, detailing every
program on every disk, just as you would expect. In addition, each CD
contains directory listings from the other six, making it easy to track down
the programs you need. Most programs are ready to run, those few which are
archived were supplied in that format to enable them to be re-distributed on
floppies. We decided to leave them as is, to enable you to copy them to
floppies to swap with friends or exchange on-line in sensible sized chunks.
The first five volumes are primarily for the ST, though much of the software
will also run on the TT and Falcon. Volumes six and seven are specifically
for the Falcon 030, though there's a lot of excellent JPEG and GIF images
on volume seven which could be used equally well on any computer. Volume
five is an oddity as it can be used on an ST, PC or Macintosh (see below for
details) but not a TT or Falcon. All CDs contain approximately the same
amount of data, but the number of categories on each varies due to the
differing sizes of each category.
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Here's a brief overview of what's on the various CDs:-
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FLOPPYSHOP GOLD VOLUME ONE - Contains all the UTILITY, WORD PROCESSING and
PROGRAMMING disks along with our popular Floppyshop Compilation Disks
featuring the best software from all categories.
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FLOPPYSHOP GOLD VOLUME TWO - Contains all the ART and GRAPHICS programs
along with all the FONT disks from the library.
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FLOPPYSHOP GOLD VOLUME THREE - Contains all the GAMES, MIDI, MUSIC,
EDUCATIONAL and COMMUNICATION software from the catalogue.
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FLOPPYSHOP GOLD VOLUME FOUR - Contains the widest range of software from
CLIPART to SOUND files, with everything in-between including the YOUR SECOND
MANUAL support disks, PRODUCT DEMOS, PICTURES, ASTROLOGY and DISK MAGAZINES.
You don't get much more diverse than GOLD CD 4!
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FLOPPYSHOP GOLD VOLUME FIVE - The ST became "famous" for its demos and demo
coder achieved the status of "cult heroes". This CD is dedicated exclusively
to these people. It contains all the demos in our collection, archived using
the Magic Shadow Archiver (supplied). Many demos had to be archived as they
ran directly from the bootsector and could be stored in any other format.
The Nostalgia and PowerST Atari emulators on the Macintosh and the Pacifist
emulator on the PC all recognise MSA archives and can boot from them as if
they were real floppy disks. These emulators are supplied on disc, allowing
owners of PC and Macintosh computers to run the demos straight from the CD.
Unfortunately ST owners will have to restore them to floppy disks first!
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FLOPPYSHOP GOLD VOLUME SIX - Contains the first half of our Falcon
collection. Categories on this CD are ART & GRAPHICS, COMMUNICATIONS,
EDUCATION, FONTS, MUSIC, PRODUCT DEMOS, PROGRAMMING, SOUND files and
UTILITIES.
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FLOPPYSHOP GOLD VOLUME SEVEN - The remaining categories of this bumper
collection can be found here. They are CLIP ART, ENTERTAINMENT DEMOS, GAMES
and PICTURES.
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We are certain you will enjoy owning (and indeed using) this unique
collection just as much as we have enjoyed collecting it.....