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Semi-official repository for the BeebEm emulator.
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Support for The Soft Option titles #19

Open simoninns opened 3 years ago

simoninns commented 3 years ago

This is very much a stretch goal - but there was another project IVIS (interactive video in schools) which produced a large number of disc titles based around the The Soft Option environment:

https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=1977

The CfCH has a number of these titles in their archives including the French language one people seem to remember fondly:

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/12519/IVIS-Laserdisc-Siville/ http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/49753/site-search/?q=IVIS&x=0&y=0

Duplicating these discs and getting them under emulation would be amazing. Note: these are not AIV titles, so the data is on floppy discs (therefore emulation requires that the software for the discs is in the archive too).

simoninns commented 3 years ago

Note that these are highly likely to be Philips PDO UK pressed discs... therefore duplicating them with the Domesday Duplicator should be a priority for CfCH, otherwise they will be completely lost.