Floppyshop Online — The Atari ST & Falcon PD Library, Reborn and Fully Searchable

[exxos]

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Back in the day, Floppyshop was one of the largest and best-known public domain libraries (PDLs) in the UK — a mail-order institution that supplied Atari ST and Falcon users with disk after disk of games, demos, utilities, music, fonts and art, long before broadband made everything a click away. For countless Atari owners, the Floppyshop catalogue was how you discovered new software.

Collections like this usually meet a sad end: boxed up, shelved, turned into shelf-ornaments and slowly forgotten. I didn't want that to happen here. So my girlfriend and I spent many days painstakingly reorganising the entire Floppyshop Gold series into a fully online, searchable database — every disk catalogued, every file downloadable, and all of it completely free to browse and grab. Thousands of programs and PD titles, preserved and back within reach.
It's all sorted into easy-to-browse sections: Art & Graphics, Astrology, Clip Art, Communication, Demos, Disk Magazines, Educational, Fonts, Games, Programming, MIDI, Music, Product Demos, Sound, Utilities and Word Processing. Buried in among it are plenty of "lost" programs — tools and titles that are still genuinely useful today, not just curiosities.

The originals weren't perfect, and neither were the catalogues. There were many discrepancies between what the Gold collection listed and the disks themselves, and I've corrected as many as I could find — including a few disks that never made it into the supplied (and probably older) catalogue at all. The separate ST and Falcon catalogues have been merged into single sections to keep things simple, with Falcon disks clearly renamed FALC-xxx so they're never confused with their ST counterparts.

Search it, browse it, download it — all free.

Browse the library: https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/PDL/ ... /index.htm

[HigashiJun]

Thanks !

:D

[alexh]

Definitely an interesting resource. Thank you.

It is a shame that there is no Atari equivalent of http://aminet.net

There used to be Atari equivalents back in the day, FTP sites at universities around the world, but last time I looked there were had been no uploads since the late 90s early 00s and they were now read only.

[exxos]

Some people claiming the downloads not working in chrome, can anyone verify? Downloads work fine for me but I'm using a older chrome version. Nobody ever reported issues before with downloads.

I tried with my android tablet and the download box just fades and doesn't redirect to the download page. So I assume that's what people are seeing. Though it would have been more helpful if people had posted the issue on here in the first place.

[Hellraiseruk]

Awesome work!

JD

[czietz]

Some people claiming the downloads not working in chrome, can anyone verify?

With Microsoft Edge (which is Chromium under the hood) I can verify the downloads are not working. As you saw on the tablet, the download box just fades away. The developer console then shows the following error message:

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index.htm:100 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'value')
    at subm (index.htm:100:43)
    at HTMLInputElement.onclick (index.htm:1:1)
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EDIT: Then again, the same thing happens with Firefox, too. I had used it when you launched it a few days ago, and back then downloads worked with Firefox.

[Darklord]

Wow, definitely book-marking this one - well done. :)

[exxos]

With Microsoft Edge (which is Chromium under the hood) I can verify the downloads are not working. As you saw on the tablet, the download box just fades away. The developer console then shows the following error message:
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Thanks. Please see if the issue is fixed now.

[czietz]

Thanks. Please see if the issue is fixed now.

Downloads work now - tested with Edge and Firefox. Thank you!

[exxos]

Downloads work now - tested with Edge and Firefox. Thank you!

:thanksyellow: