I know this is probably a futile attempt and unnecessary with long-time contributors but maybe not so much with the occasional Mac Garden visitor.
We're still missing a lot of 80's Macintosh software. With these floppy disks pushing 30+ years now, it's only a matter of time before that software will be lost forever. Heck, half of my floppies are gone already and floppy failure rate rises with every month passing.
Please do posterity a favor and go through your software library. Check your basement and wardrobe. See if you happen to have any old software that is not yet on the Macintosh Garden. No matter how unimportant that software might seem. Yes, we're also looking for Excel templates, Video Works animations and Clip-Art floppy disks.
If you don't have the means to make proper images and upload them, please write nonetheless. If you're in Central Europe, I offer to image your floppy disks with my old Macs and put them on the Garden - crediting you as contributor. Heck, I'll even gladly pay the shipping costs to / from me. There's others who will do the same in other parts of the world,
Just to name a few 1980s Mac titles about to be lost forever:
- A Country Christmas (B&B Soundworks)
- Albert's House (1987 - Softime Australia)
- Alias (198x, from Brodie Lockard)
- Arazok's Tomb (The Next Frontier/Aegis Development, 1987)
- ArchiText (1989 - BrainPower)
- Atlas Explorer (Springboard, 1989)
- Baby (Medisoft, 1986)
- Bag-0-Tricks (Wing Eng)
- Battle of Midway (Wartime Simulations / SJP Enterprises 198x)
- Blue Powder Grey Smoke (Gardé Games, 1987)
- Breach - Serayachi Campaign add-on
- Capture (version 1.x - 3.x, 1988 - 1990, Mainstay)
- Computerized Gardening (Ortho Information Systems, 1985)
- DashBoard (TENpoint0, 1988)
- Deluxe Music Construction Set (original version 1.0 from 1985)
- Destiny (Software Investments Plus, 1985)
- DiskFinder (1.x - 1989 - Williams & Macias)
- DynaPerspective (DynaWare - 1989)
- Entrepreneur (Harvard Associates/Microsoft, 1985)
- Goldfinger (from Angelsoft)
- GrayPaint (Mac-Nifty Central, 1986)
- LXR•Test (Logic eXtension Resources, 1988)
- MacCalc (1986, Bravo Technologies)
- MacCobol (1987, MicroFocus)
- MacDraft 2 (Innovative Data Design)
- MacSchedule (2.x - Mainstay)
- MacWorkStation (1987, Apple)
- Mac Bar Coda (1989 - ComputaLabel)
- Mac Interiors (1988 - Microspot)
- Mac Pro Football (1987 - Avalon Hill)
- MapMaker (version 1.x & 2.x )
- ModaCAD
- Navigate! (1988)
- Paladin (Omnitrend)
- Planit Kitchen (1988 Microspot)
- PowerStation (Fifth Generation Systems)
- Quartet (1985 Haba Systems)
- QuickMail 1.x (CE Software)
- ReadySetShow (1988, Letraset)
- Real Life (Relational Systems, 1986)
- SimCity Terrain Editor (Maxis, 1989 original release)
- Shogai (198x, ?)
- Squire (Blue Chip Software - 1986)
- Taskmaker (XOR Corporation, original floppy disk release)
- Tempo (1986 - Affinity Microsystems)
- TextPert 1.x, 2.x, 3.x (CTA)
- Thunder! (Electronic Arts, 1987)
- TML Pascal 2.0 (1988)
- Trapeze 1.0 - from 1986
- Universe 2 (Omnitrend)
- Visual Business No. 5 v 1.x (Visual Business Systems, 1989)
- Wild Things (Language Systems)
- Willmaker (v. 1.0 or v.2.0 - 1989 - Nolo Press)
- ...
- ...
These are just a tiny share some of all the missing Macintosh software, there's still a ton more.
Heroes, who deserve songs to be composed in their honor:
- mrdav for uploading "Seven Cities of Gold", "Temple of Apshai", "Digital Darkroom", "Acknowledge", "AutoMac III", "Smartcom II", "Focal Point II", "Aask", "Publish It! 1.2", "MacRobots" and "Red Ryder's original 1984 release"
- Franky233 for uploading "v1.0A8 of Go", "MacSpin", "Scoop", "MORE", "PC Tools Deluxe", "QuickMail 2.0", "Mug Shot", "Thunder II", "STELLA", "Balance of Power", "Course Builder", "ReadySetGo 1.0" and MacSchedule 1.0
- Daxeria for uploading "For The Record", "MultiDisk", "Cue Film Music System", "DAtabase", "SPAMM", "Modern Artist", "INITPicker", "Prototyper", "On Cue", "Quickmail 3.0", "Just Enough Pascal", "SnapJot", "MacEnvelope", "Shortcut", "Sensei Calculus", "Sensei Physics", "Sensei Geometry", "Ensemble", "Alter Ego", "Forbidden Castle", "Voodoo Island", "Mystery Master Felony", "Maze Survival", "Tactical Jet Fighter", "Sword of Kadash" and "Business Simulator"
- StephenThomasCole for "The Electronic Whole Earth Catalogue"
- jkheiser for uploading "The Lüscher Profile"
- krausjxotv for uploading "Acta Advantage"
- GAEL_FR for uploading "OrbQuest"
- fogwraith for uploading "Images with Impact"
- Purdy for uploading "Multiclip", "Desktop Express", "Font/DA Juggler +", 1st Aid Kit HFS, "MORE II", Willmaker 3.0 and Screen Recorder
Please be a hero today and upload your software to the Mac Garden, to ensure it won't be lost forever.