Posted By
shoulders
on 2023-04-26
04:30:33
|  Re: ICPUG Commodore Libaries
I have a few ICPUG links on this page:
https://quantumwarp.com/kb/articles/125-emulators/986-my-commodore-notes
I am in the process of getting all of the manuals (buying them when I see them) scanned and completing the collection at:
https://commodore.bombjack.org/commodore/newsletters/icpug/icpug.htm
ICPUG was like a club where they ran meetings, swapped software and did newsletters which was based in the UK and it financed itself from monthly/yearly subscriptions.
It covered initially PETs, when they were name IPUG. Later on the started to cover other Commodores and were renamed ICPUG. They had people called librarians who kept complete copies of the software for various machines and if you sent them a self addressed envelope with a stamp and 2 formatted 1541 disks they would copy the software you requested, or tapes if that was your thing.
When they shutdown the people who ran the organization decided they had to destroy the disks and other stuff so when I see the disks or manuals I try and get them, so once digital, all the better.
I have just sent Csabo the library disks and a big chunk of the library including a lot of USA stuff with most of the disks you mentioned. Each disk i.e. 'GAMES1' was the name/header of the disk and this disk contained many games and this was. I think of top of my head there are 3 games disks, GAMES1, GAMES2, GAMES3. American category is only 4 disks and USA category has about 30.
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