About the Digital Marketing PD Collection
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This directory contains about 70 % of the disks in the Digital
Marketing collection of public domain disks for the C-64. 
To my knowledge, there were 255 disks in total. 
The series was started in the middle of the 80s, and contains a
mixture of mostly scene-related material - demos, pictures and music,
various tools, simple games and diskmags.

Most files files on the disk aren't tested by hand. However:
- Disks with read errors were removed
- The disk images were run through the consistency check offered by 
  the tool '64copy'
- When several copies of a disk from different sources were available,
  these copies were checked against each other (e.g. checked if they
  contain the same files, and if these files are equal).
- Most disk images are taken from 'originals' - disks bought directly
  from the distributor. Though that doesn't always mean that they're
  still in their original state. Also, there were some damaged files on
  the master disks.

The file "index.txt" shows the source and state of every disk image in 
the collection. For every disk image there is a line of the form
dmxxxx.d64  from: <contributor>  status: <quality>
where <quality> is one out of 
- ".", indicating a disk which looks ok and unchanged,
- "optical", which usually means that the directory design is missing,
- "files", which means additional files have been saved to the disk.
  Disks with read errors or obvious missing or faulty files are not in
  the collection.
 
Please help me to complete and improve the collection, by contacting me 
- if you have a disk which is not in the collection yet,
- if the collection contains a disk without the dir stamps, and you
  have one with the proper directory
- and especially if you find programs in the collection that don't work.

Greetings,
Dizzy Devil/Out of Order Softworks
slesch@studcs.uni-sb.de, lesch@dfki.de
www.out-of-order.info


Thanks for contributions and additional help go to
Acidchild
Bandit
Baracuda/Smash Designs
Bugjam/Role
Daniel Reimann
Oldskool Dirk/THF
Erich Laber/Unlimited
Groepaz/Hitmen
Kellus/MWR/Visdom
Lord Lotek/Lotek64
Mathes Alberto
Mr. Quark
Rough/Chromance
Volker Rust/Out of Order

Disks in collection:
1       24      43      64      83      103     122     147     177     205
2       25      44      65      84      104     123     148b    178     206
3       26b     46      66      85      105     124     150     179     207
4       27      47      67      86      106     125     151     180     208
5       28      48      68      87      107     127     152     181     209
6       29      49      69      89      108     128     153     182     210
7       30      50      70      90      109     129     154     183     214
8       31      51      71      91      110     130     155     184     215
13      32      52      72      92      111     131     156     185     217b
14      33      53      73      93      112     134     159     186     218
15      34      54      74      94      113     135     160     187     220
16      35      56      75      95      114     136     165     189     222
17      36      57      76      96      115     138     167     190     224
18      37      58      77      97      116     139     171     192     225
19      38      59      78      98      117     140     172     193     230
20      39      60      79      99      118     141     173     198     243a
21a     40      61      80b     100     119     142     174a    202     248b
22      41      62      81      101     120     145     175     203     249
23      42      63      82      102     121     146     176     204b    250b


Missing disks:
9               148a    166     195     212     227     236     244     253
10      88      149     168     196     213     228     237     245     254
11      126     157     169     197     216     229     238     246     255
12      132     158     170     199     217a    231     239     247
21b     133     161     174b    200     219     232     240     248a
26a     137     162     188     201     221     233     241     250a
45      143     163     191     204a    223     234     242     251
55      144     164     194     211     226     235     243b    252


Disks with optical flaws:
15a     25a     113     173     181     198     209b    222
16      39      121     174a    186     206     210     243a
20a     43      156     178     193     207     214











