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 and 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. And if you'd rather grab the whole lot in one go, the complete archives are available over on the exxos forum.
๐ Browse the Floppyshop libary
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