ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2022 Entry 9th December 2022: Post 1: Amiga PD - The Mark of K-RAM. Amiga PD - The Mark of K-RAM. A while back I did a feature on a collection of PD disks I have for the K-RAM public domain set. I was fortunate enough to obtain a box full of the disks which included the usual array of utilities games, music etc . The location of the supplier was Bexhill- on-Sea, but other than that I had very little information. I was hopeful that there was some link to the Kuma software. Anyhoo I had this mail from a guy called Joe that knew of the PD supplier and also that K-RAM was the owners name backwards.. Mark. Here is the mail: I lived in the town where K-ram computers was. It was a computer shop run by a guy called mark I believe (I think he took k-ram as it’s mark backwards). He always had a good selection of Amiga games, as well as pc, ps1 etc... he also had some AD&D books too. I used to get loads of PD Disks from him back in the 90’s. I remember him writing to disk from a CD32 with an SX1 or SX32 attached. I’m not sure where he got the PD Disk images from ( I think they were in DMS format) but I must have purchased a hundred or so over the years it was open as they were cheap and I was a Kid! I don’t think there’s any relation to K-SEKA or K-Gadget unfortunately. The original store closed after either a burglary or a fire and re-opened in Sackville road, when it finally closed, it became a fishing tackle shop (which I thought was really boring). I’m not sure whatever happened to the chap that used to run it, I’ve not thought of looking until I needed to use Relokick (which also came on one of his PD Disks) Thanks, Joe. [ My response ] What can I say. Real valuable information for me. So little is recorded about the guys that ran PD houses. There must have been so much history and actual disks etc that were lost when guys like this gave up. To actually put together a full collection of any of these PD suppliers is impossible in truth. So any fragment, however small, just fills in a few very valuable blanks in the history of the Amiga. I am sure the box that I acquired was probably just one of many that have since vanished. I so wish I could find more. I actually found the auction from my search of the Kuma software. Not sure why these sets have never really found their way onto auction sites. I only recently uploaded a copy of one of their manuals for someone. I had kinda hoped I had found the source but hey like many things it wasn't to be. Again thanks so much, and I hope you don't mind if I update my blog over the next few days with some of what you mentioned. It really does help. So if you remember anything else just let me know. Amiga PD - The Mark of K-RAM.

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