QL Commercial Software Preservation

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I did ask about the code to this demo, but no one wanted to even talk about it.

Probably best to convert the 6502 source code to 68K.

Derek

[RWAP]

As people will have noticed, the Preservation Project continues to have results, with a few more titles having been re-released over the past few weeks.

However, please don't leave finding all of the copyright holders and contacting them up to me - there are lots of people to track down and contact out there and I can't do it all !!

There are still plenty of ways in which people can help with the project....

[vanpeebles]

We need a bourbon powered gumshoe to track all the missing authors down!

[RWAP]

I've gone off bourbons since the gluten free manufacturers altered the recipe for their buscuits - could it be a rich tea powered shoestring?

[vanpeebles]

Pink wafers!

[RWAP]

At least we are continuing to make some progress - even managed to find a copy of 3D Slime without the copy protection

If anyone is following the thread - in the past few weeks, we have achieved:

a) Re-release of Farmer by Talent (commercial program)
b) Re-release of Here We Go, and Quizmaster (plus Quizmaster II) as freeware. Also got permission to re-release The Gee Gee System if anyone can find a copy!
c) Release of QPAC1 and QPAC2 as freeware
d) Re-discovery of public domain version of QL Home Finance
e) Re-discovery of shareware version of Q.A.T.S.
f) Re-release of Concept 3D as freeware
g) Re-release of several CAD programs as freeware (or at least some were re-discovered as missing from the Sinclair QL Homepage).

We still need help - people to dig around and see which former QL contacts they can find, and/or what software they have lying about....

[RWAP]

More achievements have been

- license obtained to add the A.R.K. programs (Spy, MasterSpy and various Archive based programs) to the Sinclair QL Homepage
- various EPROM images made from hardware EPROMs - images passed to Dilwyn to add to the Sinclair QL Homepage.

Current work

- trying to get a response from HiSoft to agree to re-release their titles....
So far as I know, there was the HiSoft Assembler and HiSoft Monitor packages (both written by Andy Pennell whom I have spoken with).

Were there other titles?

- trying to ascertain the position regarding Gigasoft / ABC Elektronik software....


Who else do we need to track down....
- Aholasoft from Jokela, Finland (run by Jussi Koskinen) - they published Sam the Little Spaceman - it was a great game that I reviewed for QL World (and made some changes to, but I can't find my copy anywhere....)
- English Software (run by Philip Morris) - they published Hyperdrive

[Mr_Navigator]

More achievements have been

- license obtained to add the A.R.K. programs (Spy, MasterSpy and various Archive based programs) to the Sinclair QL Homepage
- various EPROM images made from hardware EPROMs - images passed to Dilwyn to add to the Sinclair QL Homepage.

Current work

- trying to get a response from HiSoft to agree to re-release their titles....
So far as I know, there was the HiSoft Assembler and HiSoft Monitor packages (both written by Andy Pennell whom I have spoken with).

Were there other titles?

- trying to ascertain the position regarding Gigasoft / ABC Elektronik software....


Who else do we need to track down....
- Aholasoft from Jokela, Finland (run by Jussi Koskinen) - they published Sam the Little Spaceman - it was a great game that I reviewed for QL World (and made some changes to, but I can't find my copy anywhere....)
- English Software (run by Philip Morris) - they published Hyperdrive

Also awaiting a response regarding from Athene Consultants software TurboQuill

[RWAP]

I have now been in contact with Philip Morris, owner of English Software.

Unfortunately, he has stated that Hyperdrive is not to be released as freeware - ie. it is permission denied.

[Sparrowhawk]

A pity. Does he imagine that there is a commercial market for it still? I can't see the logic myself, but it's his right of course.

Out of interest, what percentage (roughly) of those you manage to contact give permission for freeware/open sourcing/free license, and what percentage refuse permission?